Earthquake monitoring (primary)

This short video by the Geoscience Australia Education Team is targeted at primary students but is suitable for a wider audience. This video introduces the concepts of earthquake monitoring using seismometers and seismographs. It also features the National Earthquake Alert Centre. Viewers are asked to try making earthquakes at home using the accelerometers in their smartphones.


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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-08-01
Date (Publication)
2020-08-12T02:04:08
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/135662

Citation identifier
Digital Obejct Identifier/https://youtu.be/uhOhm_Sh33g

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Mediator

Sharp, L.
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Iffland, D.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords

  • Earthquakes

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Title

Earthquakes - Teacher Notes and Student Activities

Citation identifier
76611

Citation identifier
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Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76611

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Title

Plate tectonics globe tennis ball activity

Citation identifier
68913

Citation identifier
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Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/68913

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
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Plate tectonics globe basketball activity

Citation identifier
83875

Citation identifier
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Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/83875

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Title

50 Years of Australian Earthquakes Poster

Citation identifier
82453

Citation identifier
07124f24-5afe-105c-e054-00144fdd4fa6

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/82453

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Title

Educational booklet series for East New Britain: Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcanoes & you

Citation identifier
75909

Citation identifier
da24d701-2efe-1f7a-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/75909

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

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English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Link to YouTube video

Link to YouTube video

Distribution format

  • html

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Iffland, D.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

Seismometers, seismograms and earthquake monitoring (primary)

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/135662

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9181860c-40df-472d-bff6-fbf4f56a2a44

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9181860c-40df-472d-bff6-fbf4f56a2a44

Date info (Creation)
2025-04-17T00:57:06.205Z
Date info (Creation)
2020-05-03T23:45:58
Date info (Revision)
2025-04-17T02:46:11.704Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/135662

 
 

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Keywords

Earthquakes
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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