Gary Gibson and Kevin McCue arrived in Moro late on Monday 23 April to check the aftershock monitoring equipment and download data from the recorders. It was deemed important to secure any data recorded following the large magnitude 6.3 earthquake on 7 April, shortly after they left PNG at the end of the installation field trip….
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…
After discussion with potential partners, Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory, Oil Search, Geoscience Australia, NZSEE, and the Department of Foreign Affairs (Canberra), AEES initiated a mission to Papua New Guinea to monitor aftershocks of the destructive magnitude 7.5 earthquake in the Southern Highlands of PNG on 26 February 2018. More than 140 people were killed, with…