Description: AusPass offers free access to seismic data acquired in Australia. Visit AusPass to find about earthquakes and discover the Earth structure beneath Australia!
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Our metadata archive provides location, hardware information, AND response information (via FDSN) for all seismic arrays currently distributed by AusPass. Time periods are indicated for each array to facilitate your search of data for a particular event (earthquake, explosion, etc.). If you are already using AusPass, the DOI numbers given here are the appropriate references to cite (one for each array), but if none are available (yet) a reference to our webpage may be apropriate. The links listed here (some
Although Australia is not on a plate boundary, earthquakes can occur due to stress built up from the motions of tectonic plates nearby. The plot on the right shows earthquakes with a magnitude > 3 since 1955, an average of about 80 per year! Historically, the largest Australian earthquakes were recorded at:
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