Every major infrastructure project needs to consider potential site-specific hazards: e.g. landslides for roads; the environmental impact of power generation facilities; wind loading for buildings. Earthquakes are a hazard for these and many other assets including dams, nuclear power stations, resource pipelines and critical data centres.
The SRC has been fortunate enough to be involved in a landmark earth science project in Western Australia, as a supplier of some of the seismographs used in the project, and in assisting with one phase of the deployment of over 150 seismic stations.
It’s the SRC’s 50th anniversary, and we’ve made a retro Seismology t-shirt to celebrate. Get one in our online store today.
We’ve compiled a short series of clips highlighting a few interesting earthquake facts for each Australian state and territory into a single video.
As part of the operation of the Victorian Water Industry seismic network, the Seismology Research Centre recently installed triaxial strong motion accelerographs (SMA) on Glenmaggie Dam.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Earthquakes occur when stress build-up in the earth’s crust exceeds the strength of the rock, but tectonic plate motion isn’t the only source of stress. We can change rock stress and trigger earthquakes to occur sooner than they may have otherwise.
