Quantitive landslide risk assessment of Cairns

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This is a report describing a quantitative landslide risk assessment carried out in the Cairns area as part of the AGSO Cities Project. The study objective is to provide information on landslide types, conmunity vulnerability and risks to the Cairns City Council for planning and emergency management purposes. Using geological and geomorphological observations and historical information, a regional map of landslide hazards in the Cairns area has been produced. This map was entered into a geographic information system (GIS) containing comprehensive information on buildings, roads and demography.

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Title Quantitive landslide risk assessment of Cairns
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a9a75443-dbdc-4a21-8f97-d034884219a4
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Quantitive landslide risk assessment of Cairns". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/quantitive-landslide-risk-assessment-of-cairns