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Seismic hazard estimation in stable continental regions: Challenges and opportunities

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Damaging earthquakes in Australia and other regions characterised by low seismicity are considered low probability but high consequence events. Uncertainties in modelling earthquake occurrence rates and ground motions for damaging earthquakes in these regions imposes unique challenges on forecasting seismic hazard and the use of this information for improving seismic safety within our communities. Key challenges for these regions are explored, including: the quality and continuity of earthquake catalogues; the difficulties in characterising earthquake ground motions; the uncertainties in earthquake source modelling, and; the consideration of modern earthquake hazard information to support future building provisions.

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Title Seismic hazard estimation in stable continental regions: Challenges and opportunities
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/26af7f6e-a48b-438a-a802-213883ddc7cb
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 25/01/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        -44.0
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      ],
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      ]
    ]
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Seismic hazard estimation in stable continental regions: Challenges and opportunities". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seismic-hazard-estimation-in-stable-continental-regions-challenges-and-opportunities