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Fountain, L. | Van Putten, K. | Griffin, J. | Hingee, M. | Mleczko, R.
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The aim of this document is to provide the Attorney General's Department (AGD) with an assessment of the nearshore tsunami hazard for Australia. This assessment is one of the tsunami capacity building initiatives of the AGD to support the tsunami planning and preparation initiatives of the States and Territories. It follows the national deep water probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment completed in 2008 [1] that showed that Western Australia has the highest offshore hazard, the east coast of Australia has a moderate offshore hazard, while the smallest hazard can be found off Australia's southern coast. The intent of this nearshore assessment is to add interpretative value to the deep water assessment by estimating the amplification factor that can be applied to convert the deep water hazard to the nearshore tsunami hazard at a number of Australian communities. Further, the deep water assessment did not provide data for most of Victoria, Northern Territory, the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, or the north coast of Tasmania due to the shallow water of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the Torres and Bass Straits. Therefore, this nearshore assessment provides these areas with a tsunami hazard assessment for the first time
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- tsunamis
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- geohazards
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- bathymetry
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- marine
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- Earth Sciences
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