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Calculate an earthquake epicentre

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This advanced earthquake location and magnitude classroom activity is based on real data from the 2004 earthquake off Banda Aceh on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Extension exercises and teacher answer provided.

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Title Calculate an earthquake epicentre
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f80f7b66-0df4-4b42-ab14-da1c3b8ce57a
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        95.0,
        -6.0
      ],
      [
        106.5,
        -6.0
      ],
      [
        106.5,
        6.0
      ],
      [
        95.0,
        6.0
      ],
      [
        95.0,
        -6.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Calculate an earthquake epicentre". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/calculate-an-earthquake-epicentre