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Earthquake monitoring (primary)

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This short video by the Geoscience Australia Education Team is targeted at primary students but is suitable for a wider audience. This video introduces the concepts of earthquake monitoring using seismometers and seismographs. It also features the National Earthquake Alert Centre. Viewers are asked to try making earthquakes at home using the accelerometers in their smartphones. For more education resources visit ga.gov.au/education.

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Title Earthquake monitoring (primary)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/12b0596f-5160-4d85-a68a-69455fa883ab
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Geoscience Australia Data
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Earthquake monitoring (primary)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/earthquake-monitoring-primary