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Geoscience Australia Hazard and Risk Vocabulary
This vocabulary is used to define terms used in the field of climate and disaster risk covering hazard, exposure, vulnerability, impact, climate, weather and geophysical... -
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami explanatory animations and illustrations
A selection of images and short animations explaining key aspects of the 2004 Indian Ocean/ Sumatra tsunami, revised and issued for release to the media and other interested... -
The 2012 Australian Seismic Hazard Map - Introduction and Approach
Geoscience Australia is currently drafting a new Australian Earthquake Hazard Map (or more correctly a series of maps) using modern methods and models. Among other applications,... -
Fragility of Indonesian houses: scenario damage analysis of the 2006...
Indonesia is located in one of the most seismically active regions in the world and often experiences damaging earthquakes. In the past the housing sector has sustained more... -
Engineering Ground-Motion Database for Western and Central Australia
A database of recordings from moderate-to-large magnitude earthquakes is compiled for earthquakes in western and central Australia. Data are mainly recorded by Australian... -
Geoscience Australia Flood Study Summary Web Services
The Flood Study Summary Services support discovery and retrieval of flood hazard information. The services return metadata and data for flood studies and flood inundation maps... -
A low-cost seismic network for Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is situated at the edge of the Pacific “ring of fire” and is exposed to frequent large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Earthquakes in PNG, such as... -
Urban Seismic Risk in Java, Indonesia
Understanding and quantifying seismic risk in urban areas is critical to underpin policy designed to mitigate against future seismic losses and fatalities. This requires... -
Tropical Cyclone Risk Model
The Tropical Cyclone Risk Model (TCRM) is a stochastic modelling system intended for the evaluation of hazard and risk associated with tropical cyclones, specifically focused on... -
Sixth Generation Seismic Hazard Model of Canada: Input files to produce...
The 6th Generation Seismic Hazard Model of Canada (CanadaSHM6) provides the basis for seismic design values proposed by Natural Resources Canada for the 2020 edition of the... -
From Offshore to Onshore Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment with...
Offshore probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments (PTHAs) are increasingly available for earthquake generated tsunamis. They provide standardized representations of tsunami... -
Teacher professional learning sessions - Secondary
These videos are recordings of online secondary teacher professional learning sessions, delivered by Geoscience Australia’s Education Team. “Can I Fall Down the Cracks?” Plate... -
Towards real-time earthquake impact alerting in Indonesia
The Government of Indonesia has committed to deploying a network of 500 strong-motion sensors throughout the nation. The data from these sensors have the potential to provide... -
Preparing for a category 5 cyclone landfall in Western Australia
Consider you are responsible for providing an emergency response in Karratha. There is a category 4 cyclone sweeping towards the coast and Bureau of Meteorology forecasts... -
Surface rupture and distributed deformation revealed by optical satellite...
This investigation uses high-resolution optical satellite imagery to quantify vertical surface offsets associated with the intraplate 20 May 2016 Mw 6.0 Petermann Ranges... -
Probabilistic seismic hazard map of Papua New Guinea
Probabilistic seismic hazard map of Papua New Guinea, in terms of Peak Ground Acceleration, is developed for return period of 475 years. The calculations were performed for... -
Australian local wind multiplier data
Using the new release of the local wind multipliers software (V.3.1) (eCat 145699) and an appropriate source of classified terrain data, local wind multipliers on a national... -
Australian Flood Studies Database - Cataloguing and Uploading Guidelines
The Australian Flood Studies Database is available on line by Geoscience Australia. The database provides metadata on Australian flood studies and information on flood risk with... -
Tectonic geomorphology and Holocene uplift rates of the Lae Urban Area,...
The city of Lae is Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s second largest, and is the home of PNG’s largest port. Here, a convergence rate of ~50 mm/yr between the South Bismarck Plate and the... -
Accommodating Spatially Varying Tidal Planes in Tsunami Hazard Assessments
Tsunami hazard assessment is commonly performed using a conservatively high sea level, typically the highest astronomical tide (HAT). However, HAT is not constant but varies...