On the 26th of June, AEES member Helen Goldsworthy from the University of Melbourne did an interview with ABC Radio about the effects of the June 24 earthquake in the Banda Sea on buildings in Darwin. The audio of that interview is available here: Helen had some additional commentary to share with the AEES community,…
by Dr Cvetan Sinadinovski (cvetansin@hotmail.com) The 2018 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly was held again in Vienna between April 8th and 13th this year. Over 15,000 scientists from 106 countries participated in the conference, of which 53% were under the age of 35 years. Some 4,776 oral, 11,128 poster and 1,419 interactive presentations were shown…
AEES member Brian Gaull made a submission to the WA Government as part of their enquiry into fracking. View the full submission here, and read the introduction below. Recordings of earthquakes over the last century have shown that mining is just one of many industrial activities that can induce large enough events to cause significant…
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…