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Being Prepared for Earthquakes

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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You may not realise it but, on average, Australia is rattled every few days by an earthquake of magnitude 3 or above. We don’t feel every small tremor that happens, but the larger earthquakes are powerful enough to cause serious damage to buildings and infrastructure, putting our community’s safety at risk.

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Field Value
Title Being Prepared for Earthquakes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/68d6fa82-80d4-4d5f-b400-67d61f6dc579
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 29/08/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Being Prepared for Earthquakes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/being-prepared-for-earthquakes