After 30 years sitting unused, one of the earliest earthquake monitoring vaults in Australia has recently been recommissioned as an operational seismic station with a modern seismograph using GPS timing and 3G data telemetry. Originally commissioned in 1959 along with two other underground vaults in the Burragorang and Upper Nepean State Parks, the Jenolan vault formed…
Seismographs aren’t just for earthquakes. Vibration monitoring is performed every day in the mining and construction industries, using recorders like our Kelunji teamed with geophones, accelerometers, and microphones (for monitoring air pressure from blasts). In fact, the Kelunji EchoPro was born from a need by Orica Mining Services to have…
For up-to-date news and comments from the SRC, make sure you follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter. Our Earthquake News page has information on significant earthquakes, but for the smaller events that you could feel we might only post information to social media. There’s also our YouTube channel where we will occasionally put…
How we compare earthquake size to Richter’s original scale.
Here is a quick video showing the steps to establish a basic seismic monitoring station using an SRC seismograph system. In this example no outcropping rock was available in the area, so a metre-deep concrete pier was built (10% above ground) with a farm-gate fence to protect the hut from…
Here’s a sneak peek at our Gecko-based SMA. An all-in-one ±2g triaxial accelerograph that is easily installed using a single anchor point. Once powered up it records GPS-synchronised continuous data in a ring buffer for a year or more, ensuring earthquakes are never missed. This is the future of structural monitoring…
What is the difference between a seismograph and an accelerograph?
What you’re looking at is our new website, built on a sturdy content management system that will allow us to provide you richer content that adapts to whatever device you’re using, be it desktop, tablet, or smartphone. Some of the old content is still in the process of being moved…
We are often asked why our earthquake locations and magnitudes are different to those published by Geoscience Australia (GA), and who is right. Well, it depends. To determine an earthquake’s latitude, longitude and depth, you need to use at least three seismographs. The closer they are to an earthquake, the…
It’s the end of our first visit to AGU, and we had a great time. It was so great to bring something new and exciting to the global seismological community. Quick Quake is like nothing anyone had ever seen before, and the looks on people’s faces as they watched the seismograms ease…
