The largest earthquake in Victoria since record-keeping began occurred on Wednesday 22 September 2021 at 9:15 AEST (2021-09-21 @ 2315 UTC), 130km east of Melbourne, between Woods Point and Licola North in the Gippsland region. This earthquake is also the largest on-shore Australian event since the Mw6.1 Petermann Ranges earthquake (2016-05-20 @ 1814 UTC). Technical…
Following the magnitude 7.5 earthquake in PNG in February 2018, AEES provided some funding for an aftershock monitoring mission, where two AEES members, Gary Gibson and Kevin McCue, travelled to PNG and installed 6 strong motion instruments in the region around the main shock’s epicentre. Read more about this here and here. AEES allocated funds to cover the…
Following the Magnitude 5.7Ml (5.3Mw) earthquake in the Lake Muir region of WA on Sunday the 16th of September at 12:56 (WAST), Geoscience Australia mobilised a multidisciplinary team to coordinate and deploy temporary seismic and geodesy monitoring equipment around the Mainshock area. A two person team from Geoscience Australia flew to the region the next…
Waveform data from the largest of the recorded PNG aftershocks is available below (save linked file): Download 2018-04-07 0548 PNG 6.3 aftershock waveform file The file format is compressed PC-SUDS and contains triaxial acceleration data from all six stations. Station location and other meta data are embedded in the channel information. The data can be…