Progress towards an understanding of tsunami risk in NSW

Geoscience Australia's paper explores the nature and extent of tsunami hazard to coastal communities in New South Wales, Australia. It outlines results from risk scoping, including tsunami sources, historical analysis, and inundation modeling for selected sites. The work informs emergency planning and supports the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in confirming tsunami warning thresholds.

Use Cases

• Informing tsunami emergency planning and management arrangements based on modeled inundation studies.
• Confirming tsunami warning thresholds for NSW based on collaborative research with the Bureau of Meteorology.
• Assessing risk to low-lying populated communities around estuary foreshores from high-return-period events.
• Understanding the potential for land inundation from earthquake-generated tsunamis at rare return periods.

Strengths

• Produced by Geoscience Australia, a national geoscience institution.
• Integrates multiple analysis methods: hazard source examination, historical review, and site-specific inundation modeling.
• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au indicates official dissemination.

Limitations

• No underlying data files or columns are described; the record is a publication summary.
• Metadata fields for size, rows, license, and author are consistently listed as 'None' or 'unknown'.
• The 'last updated' date is in the future (2026-04-20), indicating a metadata error.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia

Collection Method

Risk scoping study involving examination of hazard sources, tsunami history, and inundation modeling.

Freshness

2026-04-20 01:13:55.109952 (Note: This is a future date, suggesting a metadata error)

Geography

Coastal communities of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.