Image showing gravity sation coverage and relative reliability over Australia, updated to May 2011

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Australia is not on the edge of a tectonic plate so why do we have earthquakes? The Indian-Australian plate is being pushed north and is colliding with the Eurasian, Philippine and Pacific plates. This causes stresses to build up in the interior of the plate which is released during earthquakes.

The Earthquake hazard map of Australia 1991 was prepared by members of the Standards Australia Working Group BD/6/4/1 based on the hazard analysis of Gaull, Michael-Leiba and Rynn (1990). Reference: Probabilistic earthquake risk maps of Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences,37, 169-187.

The purposes of this Bulletin are to explain and describe the accompanying 1:10 000 000-scale geological map, to discuss briefly the map's units, and to provide readers and users with a guide to the rapidly expanding literature of Antarctic geology, from which they can obtain more detailed information.

1:10 million scale map of operating mines in Australia

Map showing Australian nickel resources

Map shows lead and zinc resources of Australia.

Australia's global uranium resources by geological regions. Global resources are the aggregate of past production and current resources.

This map is based on information compiled from public sources on 54 Australian deposits with phosphate resources. Data compilation is ongoing.