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Historic earthquakes story map

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This story maps steps through Australia's history of significant earthquakes, plotted on an interactive story map. The map provides information on earthquakes, beginning with geological evidence of events that occurred up to 70 000 years ago, through to the earthquakes that have affected Australian communities in recent years.

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Field Value
Title Historic earthquakes story map
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/6adf72dc-567a-436c-b794-6bb8c7483c1c
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/05/2016
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 "Historic earthquakes story map". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/historic-earthquakes-story-map