How Passive Seismic Surveys Work

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This animation shows how passive seismic surveys Work. It is part of a series of Field Activity Technique Engagement Animations. The target audience are the communities that are impacted by our data acquisition activities. There is no sound or voice over. The 2D animation includes a simplified view of what passive seismic equipment looks like, what the equipment measures and how the survey works.

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Title How Passive Seismic Surveys Work
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/bafb90ce-a713-4bb0-af8d-ac1835ca3b72
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "How Passive Seismic Surveys Work". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/how-passive-seismic-surveys-work