Australian-Indonesian Earthquake Hazard Collaboration and Seismic Map

The Australian-Indonesian collaboration in earthquake science aimed to improve seismic hazard assessment following the 2004 Sumatra earthquake. The project resulted in a modern earthquake hazard map and laid the foundation for sustainable development of improved risk products. The dataset is presented as a talk from the Distinguished Geoscience Australia Lecturer series on 23 May 2018.

Use Cases

• Develop seismic hazard maps based on improved earthquake science.
• Plan disaster risk reduction strategies based on hazard and risk products.
• Study international scientific capacity-building programs described in the collaboration.

Strengths

• Focuses on a major seismic event, the 2004 Sumatra earthquake.
• Resulted in a modern earthquake hazard map for Indonesia.
• Describes a collaboration between Australian and Indonesian government and academic institutions.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.

Collection Method

Likely contains documentation and outcomes from a technical capacity-building program.

Time Range

Focuses on post-2004 earthquake science collaboration.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:36:41.497087; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Indonesia.