Two years on from Victoria’s largest earthquake

Two years ago today, at 9:15 am, a few million people in southeast Australia felt an earthquake, many for the first time in their lives. Let’s cover some of the more interesting points about this earthquake. Despite being felt by millions of people, only about 43,000 reported what they experienced…

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SRC earthquake data live on YouTube

The SRC is now streaming live earthquake data to our YouTube channel. The selection of stations covers southeast Australia, so if you’re in the region and there’s been something large enough to feel, you should be able to see it on some nearby stations. Each line shows the last hour…

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Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake in Melbourne’s North

The magnitude 4.0 earthquake on 28 May 2023 at 11:41pm, whose epicentre was located near the outer northern Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn, was recorded on dozens of seismometers and accelerometers across the state, providing a plethora of data for seismologists to analyse how ground motion changes over distance.

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Earthquake Alarm Service for Victoria

Victoria is one of the most uniformly monitored states in Australia for earthquake activity, growing from a small research project run by the Preston Institute of Technology to a network with statewide earthquake alarm capabilities.

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