by Col Lynam. During my attempts at curating and revitalising the University of Queensland Seismograph Stations’ (UQSS) collection, I came across 1956 correspondence and 2 seismograms from the late Father Joe McKey from St Mary’s Church in Warwick, Queensland. One of these seismograms appears below, and shows how well the 1956 Magnitude 7.1 BIAK (Indonesia)…
AEES members John Woodside and Kevin McCue have written a paper that discusses the early history of earthquake codes, standards and seismic design in Australia including the publication of AS 2121 in 1979 and the first edition of AS 1170.4 in 1993 and how it has impacted on the design community. When AS 2121 was first…
Kevin McCue originally published this article in June 2012. It has been updated in 2015 with additional information on the earthquake history of Tasmania. Download Historical Earthquakes in Tasmania v2 (3.5MB PDF). You can download the 2012 version here.
Rynn, John Munro William, 1943-2015 Jack grew up in the Annerley area of Brisbane a student at Brisbane Grammar before graduating from UQ with a Masters degree in Physics under Frank Stacey. He travelled to Lamont-Doherty at Columbia University, where he obtained his PhD in 1976, his first appointment after that was at the ANU, flying there…