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However, successive changes to seismic analysis systems and methods of pre-processing seismic waveforms over the years have led to changes in how <em>M</em>La has been calculated. These changes in <em>M</em>La estimation have led to biases for the Australian earthquake catalogue. The waveforms of 862 confirmed earthquakes between August 2023 \u2013 August 2024 were prefiltered to three high-pass corner frequencies (0.10 Hz, 0.50 Hz, and 0.75 Hz) from which the <em>M</em>La was recalculated. Quality selection criteria were applied targeting signal-to-noise ratios, minimum number contributing stations and the maximum distance of stations.\n\nThe number of network <em>M</em>La estimates that met the quality selection criteria increased with increasing high-pass corner filtering (445 earthquakes for the unfiltered <em>M</em>La versus 695 for <em>M</em>La filtered to 0.75 Hz), which is attributed to the improvement of the SNR where prefiltering dampens background noise. 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