Did you know that landslides kill more people in Australia than earthquakes. Using these activities, encourage your students to understand landslide hazards and how to reduce their own risks. This education resource consists of: - 44 page booklet - 11 reproducible activitities - suggested answers Please note: this booklet does not contain teacher notes. Suitable for secondary levels 7-12

Geoscience Australia has implemented state of the art information management methodologies to connect disparate landslide inventory databases into a single virtual database in recognition of the need to improve Australia's current collective knowledge on landslides and to ensure landslide information is useful and relevant as well as accessible and discoverable. The methodology adopted was driven by the need for a nationally consistent approach to landslide data collection in order to develop a sound knowledge base on landslide hazard and mitigation. The approach takes into account the variation in data formats and level of detail across existing landslide databases in Australia. The new Australian Landslide Database (ALD) is a joint initiative across local, state and national levels and promotes a culture of coordinating, sharing, aggregating and making information captured at different scales widely available. The approach enables independent database custodians throughout Australia to share selected pieces of information with others, while maintaining full ownership, management and the format of their data. This allows all levels of government, geotechnical professionals, emergency managers, land use planners, academics and the public to simultaneously search and query diverse landslide inventory databases in real time via a single standardised website and view results consistently. Users have up-to-date information continually at their fingertips and access to available multimedia. The ALD has the capability to display site specific details as well as present aggregated information defined by the user. Search results can be displayed as reports, graphs, maps, statistics or tables, and data can be queried against background datasets such as rainfall, geology and geomorphology. There is no limit to the number of landslide databases that can be connected to the ALD. cont'd. See attached document

The cost of landslide is underestimated in Australia because their impact and loss are not readily reported or captured. There is no reliable source of data which highlights landslide cost to communities and explains who currently pays for the hazard and how much costs are. The aim of this document is to investigate and analyse landslide costs within a Local Government Area (LGA) in order to highlight the varied landslide associated costs met by the local government, state traffic and rail authorities and the public. It is anticipated this may assist in developing a baseline awareness of the range of landslide costs that are experienced at a local level in Australia. Initial estimates in this study indicate that cumulative costs associated with some landslide sites are well beyond the budget capacity of a local government to manage. Furthermore, unplanned remediation works can significantly disrupt the budget for planned mitigation works over a number of years. Landslide costs also continue to be absorbed directly by individual property owners as well as by infrastructure authorities and local governments. This is a marked distinction from how disaster costs which arise from other natural hazard events, such as flood, bushfire, cyclone and earthquake are absorbed at a local level. It was found that many generic natural hazard cost models are inappropriate for determining landslide costs because of the differences in the types of landslide movement and damage. Further work is recommended to develop a cost data model suitable for capturing consistent landslide cost data. Better quantification of landslide cost is essential to allow for comparisons to be made with other natural hazard events at appropriate levels. This may allow for more informed policy development and decision making across all levels.

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This dataset is a spatial represention of a database of landslides occurring within Australia, based on published and unpublished information and field observations. The database is under constant development.

This set of Australian landslide images illustrates the causes of landslides, both large and small, and other earth movements. A set of 15 slides with explanatory text; includes images of Thredbo, NSW, Sorrento Vic., Gracetown WA and Tasmania.

The comprehensive Landslides Kit contains the following education products; - Landslides student activities booklet of 11 reproducible activities and suggested answers (catalogue item 23853) - Australian Landslide slide set - (item 25330) - Landslide A4 paper 3D model - class set of 30 (item 33165) - Slump A4 paper 3D model - class set of 30 (item 33186) Suitable for primary Years 5-6 and Secondary Years 7-10.

Slope failures with associated submarine slides, sediment accumulation along contourite drifts and focus seepage features have been interpreted from new sub-bottom profiler, multibeam bathymetry, side-scan sonar, echo-sounder data together with geochemical analyses of sediment samples along the continental slope off Western Australia. The processes recognised show the implication of slope instability and hydrocarbon seepage in shaping the continental slope geomorphology. The spatial correlation between regional seafloor features and reactivation of pre-existing faults suggests tectonics and seismic activity being the main potential triggering parameters for slope processes offshore northern Perth Basin. Geomechanical models have been used to test potential up-fault leakage using the present-day stress field and the results correlate with the seepage features observed in the study area. The marine survey results provide additional support for the presence of an active petroleum system in the northern Perth Basin; and combined with geomechanical models, the study helps reducing petroleum exploration and geohazards riks.

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This is a report describing a quantitative landslide risk assessment carried out in the Cairns area as part of the AGSO Cities Project. The study objective is to provide information on landslide types, conmunity vulnerability and risks to the Cairns City Council for planning and emergency management purposes. Using geological and geomorphological observations and historical information, a regional map of landslide hazards in the Cairns area has been produced. This map was entered into a geographic information system (GIS) containing comprehensive information on buildings, roads and demography.