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Earth movements in Australia – Milne, Oct 1885

An article in The Argus, published on 10 October 1885, was written by John Milne, a significant contributor to the science of seismology who is credited as the inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph in 1880. The…

Full scale seismic testing of structures

A 15-minute documentary film on a project titled “Seismic performance assessment of existing buildings through full-scale tests” can be viewed below. The project was supported by Istanbul Development Agency and Istanbul Technical University. The web site of the…

Paper from 1951 on Australian Seismicity

This paper on the seismicity of Australia was only the second listing of earthquakes in continental Australia, and the first by an Australian seismologist using local data. T. N. Burke-Gaffney tabulated 44 earthquakes with their origin time, location…

Shaking Up Australians’ Beliefs

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake - the size of the destructive 2011 Christchurch earthquake - happens in Australia every 10 years, according to engineers and seismologists at the recent Australian Earthquake Engineering Society conference. “Australians are…