Earthquake Monitoring

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This seismograph is part of Geoscience Australia’s Seismic Network which detects local and regional earthquakes and measures their magnitude. This allows Geoscience Australia to provide earthquake alerts and advice. These earthquake alerts are pivotal to the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre which issues warnings to the Australian region.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Earthquake Monitoring
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/255938ec-ca70-496c-ab1f-c2c8ef2d0872
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 30/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

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