Earthquakes

 Earthquakes do not occur as often in Australia. They don't experience earthquakes as much because they sit in the middle of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate. they are away from the boundaries and other tectonic plates where major and more frequent earthquakes occur. There have been a few that have happened frequently in 2021 Victoria got an earthquake that was 5.8 and 4.3 and western Australia was hit with a 5.3 that same year. the year after, another one had a magnitude of 4.8 in western Australia, and in March they had one in the south. Although they don't experience many earthquakes Adam Pascale is the chief scientist at Seismology Research Centre. He stated although there have been more earthquakes than usual, it is fine because they are happening in normal return time. 


Below average
Normal range
Above average


Although we don't get earthquake activity as much; the Indo-Pacific region experiences more disasters. However, Australia is working along their side to improve their preparedness and their disaster response system. 






https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/australia/stats.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/are-earthquakes-becoming-more-frequent-in-australia/oimdyvvva

https://www.dfat.gov.au/development/topics/development-issues/building-resilience/drr/disaster-risk-reduction-and-resilience

Comments

  1. Hailey RobareFebruary 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM

    Hi Adrian. Its really interesting to see how different each country can be from one another. Whereas your country, Australia doesn't get frequent earthquakes, my country of Costa Rica gets a lot of them. Another difference seems to be with the magnitude of the earthquakes experienced in each country. Although a 5.8 magnitude seems big when thinking about it, some of Costa Rica's major earthquakes have been above a 7+ magnitude and have caused extensive damage. It is good to see that even though Australia doesn't have frequent earthquakes that they still have some information for preparedness as the more the country's residents are informed the better.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Kenzas Geo BlogFebruary 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM

    Hi Adrian! It is super cool to compare our countries together. While Australia got multiple big shakes in 2021 Morocco was quite up until 2023 where we had a devastating shake that killed about 2,960 people with a 6.8 magnitude. Australia is lucky that they don't get bad earthquakes. Good job on your post!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jack BrownFebruary 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM

    Interesting that they do not get a lot of earthquakes except for a few every once in a while. I thought it was cool you used the pictures to show how bad their earthquakes get. The Dominican Republic has had some earthquakes in the past 20 years but not too much.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Dominic TomasiFebruary 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM

    Hey Adrian, I think that it is really interesting that Australia doesn't get many earthquakes despite its location and size. Australians must be doing a lot better than the people of Haiti because Haiti is located right next to a few tectonic plate boundaries and experience earthquakes about every 11 days.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Coastal Problems

Image
  To begin to get you to know what coastal problems are in Australia, it is coastal erosion. What is Coastal Erosion? It is when the ocean takes away things, for example, the waves hit the shore and take away a certain amount of sand or a rock, making the beach smaller or emptier. It is usually driven by waves and currents; however, coastal erosion is often associated with bad weather. Many beaches in Australia are vulnerable to coastal erosion. There is an event called " La Niña". They call it this because it is the weather pattern that affects Australia. This typically happens in the spring and summer months. They had done a study of four decades with satellite imagery.   Dr Javier Leon is a lecturer in physical geography at the University of the Sunshine Coast. HE has estimated that in the past 3 years, the shoreline has retreated by 20 meters and sand dunes receded between 7cm and 10cm. Australia is developing and understanding Coastal erosion. They developed methods ...
Read more

Extreme Weather Events

Image
 Many extreme weather events are going on in Australia. Queensland is in the middle of a severe flood, there is a tropical cyclone going on in the Western part of Australia, and a lot of bush wildfires going on that were caused by storms and the hot and windy weather. However, we will be talking about the heat waves they have experienced.  In 2022 the Western part of Australia has gone through many heat waves. A town called Onslow In January they experienced a temperature of 50.7C and the conversion to Fahrenheit it will be 123 degrees Fahrenheit; another town called Perth had six days of 40 C temperature. The average temperature in Australia is 20-37 C. In 2015-2016 summer Perth had a record of 7 summer days that exceeded 40C. However, in 2021-2022 the city Perth surpassed that. Due to the major heat waves they experience they also experience the Winds and dry weather from the desert. Heatwaves are one of the major natural hazards that they experience in Australia. The reason...
Read more