AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). Australian Seismometers in Schools is a dual purpose seismic network. The program offers both education outreach and provides quality data for monitoring and research. We use Guralp CMG-6TD seismometers and stream data live data to the schools and Geoscience Australia as well as providing the data to IRIS and the Australian AusPass data server. AuSIS infrastructure is supported by AuScope Geophysical Observatory program.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations).

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). The Marla Line is a high density seismic line across a major crustal boundary in Central Australia. The line is approximately 230km in length with average station spacing of approximately 3.4km.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). From May to October 1998 a set of broad-band instruments were deployed through the Kimberley region, Australia, crossing both the King Leopold and Halls Creek fold belts and the interior of the block including the remote northern region. The instruments deployed were placed to improve the coverage from the KIMBA97 deployment and SKIPPY experiment indicated. Instruments used were Guralp CMG-3ESP seismometers and Reftek recorders.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). Eastern Indonesia is one of the least well understood geological domains of our planet, and yet the region provides a truly remarkable natural experiment for unraveling the complex dynamics of convergent tectonics. The recent, subduction-related collision of the Australian continental lithosphere with the active Banda arc effectively captures the initiation of convergence orogenesis and offers a rare glimpse into a process that has shaped Earth’s evolution over geologic time, as well as providing fresh insights into seismic hazards confronting the world’s fourth most populous country. A number of mysteries remain about the transition from subduction to arc-continental collision in the Banda arc, reflecting fundamental gaps in the general understanding of collisional tectonics.

The National Argon Map (NAM) is an AuScope Opportunity supported Project with ANU Argon team, an Oversight Committee, and the Australian Argon Laboratories Network: ANU, Melbourne University, University of Queensland and Curtin University. Having the argon laboratories working as a network has been key to AuScope. NAM is providing an opportunity for researchers, students, and industry to explore 40Ar/39Ar as a geochronometer. Allowing the scientific community the opportunity to be exposed to a wide variation of scientific scenarios that this geochronometer can provide. The information provided by NAM is extensive in the geological context, the sample characterisation and report. The map has been augmented by Geoscience Australia legacy datasets. Clicking on each icon on the map will provide you with links to the original proposal, sample information, citation information and a final report with 40Ar/39Ar data.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). The MINQ experiment was conducted by the Australian National University and the Geological Survey of Queensland as part of the AuScope Infrastructure program, and involved setting up an array of portable earthquake recorders on a rectangular grid with approximately 50km spacing, beginning in the Mount Isa area. Instruments are ANU solid state recorders and Lennartz 3Dlite-MII seismometers. The instruments recorded seismic waves passing through the Earth from distant earthquakes in the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans. By comparing the signals and their arrival times at different sites it is possible to learn about the geological history of North Queensland from structures we can see deep in the crust. We can resolve these seismic velocity changes in this way down as far as 50 to 100km depth. The images are constructed from the travel times of seismic waves using ray tracing and seismic tomography. An initial 21 instruments were installed in the Mount Isa area in June 2009 as the first phase of a deployment that moved progressively to the east over several years. The network was expanded to 25 instruments when the first data was collected on an instrument service run in September. Most of the instruments were moved in late 2010 to the second phase of the experiment, MINQ-B, is installed on the plains east of Cloncurry.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). The CAPRAL array was designed to improve local earthquake location and hence understanding of neotectonics in northwestern Australia. These stations provide a useful framework to improve coverage of the Pilbara craton and the Capricorn orogen. The array consists of 27 site with Guralp CMG-3ESP seismometers and Earthdata digitisers. Sample rates are 25 samples/sec.

AusPass is a service dedicated to the acquisition, management, and distribution of passive seismological data in Australia. Extensive fieldwork projects are conducted across the country, organized in seismic arrays (i.e. groups of seismic stations). The 2000-2001 deployment of broad-band instruments is designed to try to understand the crustal variations associated with the cratons of Western Australia and to provide improved coverage of the western part of the continent using surface wave paths to compensate for equipment problems encountered in the later stages of the SKIPPY project. Instruments included Guralp 40T and 3ESP sensors, a STS2 sensor, and Orion and Reftek digitisers. Data was sampled at 25 samples/sec