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Observations on Tornado Damage to Residential Structures in Bendigo

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Post-disaster data collection is a vital component of natural hazard assessment model development. Surveys of this type provide insights into the vulnerabilities of different building types to various hazards and may, in some instances, furnish valuable calibration data for verifying vulnerability models. The Risk Research Group of GA is presently developing and adapting multi-hazard vulnerability models for Australian structures that will be ultimately realised in a national risk assessment methodology. As part of the model development Geoscience Australia has carried out a number of post-disaster reconnaissance exercises including a systematic study of the wind damage caused by the May 2003 Bendigo tornado event. Residential structures of various type and ages were surveyed and contemporary brick veneer construction was found to represent the largest single group. The survey findings for this type of residential construction, along with an associated damage costing exercise that followed, are herein described.

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Title Observations on Tornado Damage to Residential Structures in Bendigo
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/14a79b20-2720-45f1-8fe9-2a95ad7c33c4
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Observations on Tornado Damage to Residential Structures in Bendigo". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/observations-on-tornado-damage-to-residential-structures-in-bendigo