On the 4th September 2010 at 4:35am a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred near Darfield in Canterbury, New Zealand. The associated fault ruptured towards Christchurch, which is New Zealand’s second largest city, and haswith a population of 350,000 people. The ground shaking was severe and critical infrastructure suffered widespread damage. The earthquake represented the most damaging earthquake event since the 3rd Feb 1931 Napier earthquake and has provided and excellent opportunity to gain a better understanding of New Zealand infrastructure vulnerability. The similarity of older legacy assets in Christchurch to those in Australia, many of which haves been retrofitted, has made this event of interest to Australia as well.

Diagram produced in Arcmap for the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA). Black and white for internal ACMA brochure, July 2006.

Diagram produced for the Australian Communications and Media Authority for use in PowerPoint presentations. Showing diagramatically, cables in the Australasian - SE Asian region.

Map produced by LOSAMBA for ACMA showing approx position of the proposed PIPE International PPC-1 Sydney - Guam Cable, issue2 DRAFT of February 2008 and issue4 of July 2008, in relation to Military Training areas R595 and R489 in the Tasman sea. Also shows Sydney Protection Zones and various cities and towns of interest on the NSW coast. Not for sale or distribution. Contains Commercial in Confidence data. For internal use by ACMA only.

Since 2012, Geoscience Australia has been providing spatial support and advice to the Crisis Coordination Centre (CCC) within Emergency Management Australia (EMA) as part of our collaboration with the Attorney-General's Department. Geoscience Australia designed the Exposure Report to quickly provide exposure information for timely emergency response and recovery decision-making. This document describes the datasets and processes that create the Exposure Report

This map depicts Australia's advanced mineral, energy and related infrastructure resource projects. Also shown are operating mines, producing petroleum fields and petroleum pipelines. Operating mines were operating at the end of 2012. The map illustrates broadly the geographic distribution of the mines and petroleum fields, and a range of broadly grouped commodities. The map also shows simplified surfacegeology which is overlain on a greyscale image of the magnetic responce of Australia's geology derived from airborne surveys.

This short video summarises the value of Geoscience Australia's work to maintaining geoscience knowledge and capability for the nation, through applying its national infrastructure, extensive data collection and multidisciplinary skills. The video is from a series of six films produced to communicate Geoscience Australia's value to the nation. Further information about the agency's work in this area can be found at http://www.ga.gov.au/value-to-the-nation

Map produced in February 2008 for the Australian Media and Communication Authority, Submarine Cable Protection Project, showing proclaimed PZs off Sydney, NSW, the latest position of cables including Gondwana-1 and most recently, the proposed Australia Hawaii cable (revision 30Aug07). Developed from earlier map of PZs and cables GeoCat 65422, produced Jan 08. This map is for internal use bt ACMA only, not for sale or distribution. The position of the proposed Aust-Hawaii cable is confidential.

This map shows the locations and status, as at 31 December 2021, of Australian operating mines, mines under development, mines on care and maintenance and resource deposits associated with critical minerals. Developing mines are deposits where the project has a positive feasibility study, development has commenced or all approvals have been received. Mines under care and maintenance and resource deposits are based on known resource estimations and may produce critical minerals in the future. The critical mineral deposits on this map may not be comprehensive for all commodities. For the purposes of this map, critical minerals are defined as minerals and elements (solid and gaseous) that are vital for modern technology and whose supply may be at risk of disruption. The Australian critical minerals list comprises aluminium (high-purity alumina), antimony, beryllium, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, helium, indium, lithium, magnesium, niobium, platinum group elements, rare earth elements, rhenium, scandium, silicon (high-purity silica), tantalum, titanium, tungsten, vanadium and zirconium. These commodities are coloured by mineral groupings on the map.

Map produced by LOSAMBA for ACMA showing approx position of the proposed PIPE International PPC-1 Sydney - Guam Cable, issue2 DRAFT of February 2008 and issue4 of July 2008, in relation to the EEZs and Continental Shelf claims of Australia and adjoining countries until the cable finally leaves Australian areas approx 300nm north of Mellish Reef. Also shows Sydney Protection Zones as very small areas on this very small scale map. Not for sale or distribution. Contains Commercial in Confidence data. For internal use by ACMA only.