Welcome to AusPass: the Australian Passive Seismic Server

Notice: The AuSIS (Australian Seismometers in Schools) data are now referenced with the network code S1 and the doi: 10.7914/SN/S1.
As part of the Seismographs In Schools project (SIS), AuSIS was previously referenced with the network code S. During a transition period, you will continue to be able to access AuSIS data with this code via IRIS. We encourage all users to update their settings as soon as possible to allow for this change.
More information can be found on our network page and on the AuSIS website.

notes, updates, changes, and eratta AusPass data map

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 data from the following arrays, listed in the AusPass metadata archive, are now available online.

AUSIS: Nationwide Australian Seismometers in Schools permanent array since 2011
SKIPPY: nationwide array 1993-1996 named after the famous bush kangaroo designed to image the Earth's interior
KIMBA: ongoing arrays deployed in 1997,1998, and 2019 in the Kimberley Region
*EAL: Eastern Australia Linkage arrays (EAL,SEAL,SQEAL,AQ3) as part of the WOMBAT rolling array 2004-2014
SOC: arrays deployed in 2007-2008 in South Australia
BILBY: North-South array 2008-2011 across central Australia
WA CRATON: arrays deployed in 2000-2001 across West Australian cratons
CAPRAL: arrays deployed in 2005-2007 in Western Australia
GAWLER: arrays deployed in 2008-2009 across the Gawler craton in South Australia
MINQ: Mt. Isa Northern Queensland array 2009-2011
BASS: arrays deployed in 2011-2013 from Southern Victoria to Northern Tasmania to image the crust and lithosphere beneath the Bass strait
CURNAMONA: array deployed from April-November 2009 in South Australia across the Curnamona craton and the Adelaide Rift Complex
AQT: large array deployed 2015-2017 in western Queensland
ASR: array deployed in 2017-2019 to infill areas of South Australia which have yet to have any seismic imaging done (Coming Soon)
MARLA: high density seismic line deployed in 2018-2019 across central Australia (Coming Soon)
INDONESIA: ANU seismic deploys in Indonesia (More coming soon)

Access data

Additional seismic data (black stars) collected in Australia (ALFREX, SETA. QUOLL, EVA, TIGGER, TASMAL, to name a few) and abroad (Indonesia, OBS) are forthcoming. AusPass is under construction. Your feedback is highly appreciated and will help us to improve our service.

AusPass metadata archive

Our metadata archive provides location, hardware information, AND response information (via FDSN) for all seismic arrays currently distributed by AusPass. Time periods are indicated for each array to facilitate your search of data for a particular event (earthquake, explosion, etc.). If you are already using AusPass, the DOI numbers given here are the appropriate references to cite (one for each array), but if none are available (yet) a reference to our webpage may be apropriate. The links listed here give a description of each seismic array including a map of stations. Alternatively a Google KML file for all networks can be downloaded HERE. The complete AusPass metadata can be accessed with the WebDC3 graphical explorer or with a standard FDSN request. (visit our metadata help page).

Code	Name	Stations	Start	End	Type	Access	DOI	Link
S1	AUSIS	49	2011-09-01	ongoing	permanent	open	10.7914/SN/S1	Here
7B	SKIPPY	37	1993-05-03	1995-08-10	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7B_1993	Here
7D	KIMBA97	7	1997-07-21	1997-10-14	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7D_1997	Here
7E	KIMBA98	6	1998-05-22	1998-07-25	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7E_1998	Here
7G	WA CRATON	25	2000-07-11	2001-07-13	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7G_2000	Here
7Q	SEAL	20	2004-11-03	2005-04-09	temporary	open	TBA	Here
7T	SEAL2	31	2007-02-11	2007-11-19	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7T_2007	Here
7U	SEAL3	57	2007-11-14	2009-02-14	temporary	open	TBA	Here
7J	CAPRAL	25	2005-10-20	2007-05-30	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7J_2005	Here
7K	SOC	21	2007-02-14	2008-08-14	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/7K_2007	Here
1G	GAWLER	35	2008-07-01	2009-04-03	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/1G_2008	Here
6F	BILBY	25	2008-08-27	2011-05-24	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/6F_2008	Here
1F	CURNAMONA	34	2009-03-24	2009-11-05	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/1F_2009	Here
ZR	MINQ	53	2009-06-16	2011-04-01	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/ZR_2009	Here
YJ	EAL1	44	2009-06-02	2010-02-26	temporary	open	TBA	Here
1H	EAL2	52	2010-05-10	2011-03-22	temporary	open	TBA	Here
7L	EAL3	44	2011-11-09	2013-07-07	temporary	open	TBA	Here
1P	BASS	24	2011-05-22	2012-12-31	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/1P_2011	Here
8J	SQEAL	98	2012-11-19	2014-10-12	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/8J_2012	Here
4J	AQ3	52	2014-05-20	2016-02-09	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/4J_2014	Here
1Q	AQT	87	2015-11-28	2017-10-24	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/1Q_2016	Here
YS	BANDA	11	2016-11-21	2019-08-20	temporary	open	10.7914/SN/YS_2014	Here
5J	ASR	12	2017-04-23	2019-02-28	temporary	closed	TBA	Here
3G	MARLA LINE	66	2018-04-21	2019-08-04	temporary	closed	10.7914/SN/3G_2018	Here

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Historical Australian Earthquakes

Although Australia is not on a plate boundary, earthquakes occur due to sresses built up from the motions of tectonic plates around Australia. On average, there are about 80 earthquakes a year in Australia with a magnitude greater than or eqaul to 3. The plot on the right shows earthquakes bigger than magnitude 3 occuring in Australia since 1955. Historically, the largest Australian earthquakes were recorded at:

Tennant Creek, NT (Magnitude 6.6, 6.3 and 6.2) : 1988
Meckering, WA (Magnitude 6.5) : 1968
Simpson Desert, NT (Magnitude 6.4): 1941
Meeberrie, WA (Magnitude 6.3) : 1941
Collier Bay, WA (Magnitude 6.3) : 1997
Cadoux, WA (Magnitude 6.1) : 1979
Petermann Ranges, NT (Magnitude 6.1) : 2016
West of Lake Mackay, WA (Magnitude 6) : 1970