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A New Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for Australia
<p>The 2018 Australian Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA18) was developed by Geoscience Australia to better understand Australia’s tsunami hazard due to earthquakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The PTHA18 contains over a million hypothetical earthquake-tsunami scenarios, with associated return periods which are constrained using historical earthquake data and long-term plate tectonic motions. The tsunami propagation is modelled globally for 36 hours, and results are stored at thousands of sites in deep waters offshore of Australia. Average Return Interval (ARI) estimates are also provided, along with a representation of the associated uncertainties. ARI uncertainties tend to be large because of fundamental limitations in current scientific knowledge regarding the frequency of large earthquakes on global subduction zones.
<p>The PTHA18 provides a nationally consistent basis for earthquake-tsunami scenario design, as required for inundation hazard assessments. The results and source-code are also freely available. The current paper aims to provide a short and accessible introduction to the PTHA18 methodology and results, while deliberately limiting technical details which are covered extensively in the associated technical report and code repository.
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- 2019-05-01T01:00:00
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- 2020-03-25T00:58:13
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Davies, G.
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Paper submitted to Coasts and Ports 2019 conference.
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Tsunami
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Earthquake
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Probabilistic Hazard Assessment
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The 2018 Australian Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment
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PTHA18 source-code repository and data access scripts
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2018 Australian Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment Results
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Download the paper (pdf) [1MB]
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-1:2014
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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