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25.01.2022 #earthquake in Broadford, VIC Ml=2.8 recorded in our seismometer in Mt Clear College/Earth Ed. @EarthEdsciencecentre
25.01.2022 Before the students arrive
24.01.2022 Schools are heading back! time to check your seismometer is still running!
24.01.2022 "New research from the Australian National University (ANU) has shown that Australia is prone to shallow and potentially destructive earthquakes." https://www.anu.edu.au//al/a-deep-dive-into-shallow-quakes
23.01.2022 Shakes of the #BeirutExplosion was felt like an #earthquake with a local magnitude of 3.3 according to IRIS Earthquake Science #BeirutBlast #Lebanon #seismic
21.01.2022 Happy International Womens day! In AuSIS outreach programs the girls are encouraged to bust the stereotypes and bridge the the gender gaps in #STEM. #IWD2020 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay2020 #WomenInScience #equity #diversity
21.01.2022 #earthquake Irian Jaya Region, #Indonesia 2019-11-23 12:11:16 UTC; Depth: 10 km; Magnitude: 6.1, recorded in our seismometer in North Rockhampton State High School. North Rockhampton State High School ANU Research School of Earth Sciences #sciencecommunication #seismology AusPass
16.01.2022 Meghan Samantha Miller and Louis Moresi used Australian Seismometers in Schools (AusisEdu) to detect changes in anthropogenic noise levels due to lockdown measures across Australia
16.01.2022 A seismically active day in NSW! Two earthquakes in an hour with magnitude 3.8 and 4.2. Here is the second one with magnitude 4.2 recorded in our seismometer in Kincumber High School
15.01.2022 No words needed #scienceweek https://t.co/vDPydtL4Yy
15.01.2022 Welcome Marian Catholic College in Griffith NSW to the AuSIS network. Data will be flowing soon. Here is my new helper Sima Mousavi next to her first installation.
14.01.2022 Our webpage has been hacked, hold in there we will get it back as soon as possible!
13.01.2022 Do you teach students about the Elastic Rebound Theory in your geoscience courses? If so, consider letting students bend a rock, to deepen their understanding o...f this foundational geoscience concept. Recent research published in the Journal of Geoscience Education suggests many undergraduates do not conceptualize of rigid, solid objects like rocks as elastic, and their understanding of the concept of elasticity tends to be incomplete. "By giving students the opportunity to bend a rock in class, they are forced to re-evaluate their existing understandings of rocks and the concept of elasticity. Through the experience they become open to the idea that even rigid solids can behave elastically which leads into an opportunity to review other types of deformation (e.g. brittle and ductile behaviors) with other non-traditional examples. The research is available here... Hubenthal, M. (2018). Exploring undergraduates conceptions of elasticity, within a plate tectonics context, before and after experience with rocks elastic behavior. Journal of Geoscience Education, 66(4), 261277. https://www.tandfonline.com//abs/10./10899995.2018.1493964 An example lesson using the demonstration can be found here... Seeing IS believing. Rocks are elastic! (https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/lesson/elastic_rocks) Additional teaching demonstrations and tips are available in the January 2018 issue of In the Trenches (an online publication of NAGT) Seismology Lessons with Deep and Lasting Impact (https://nagt.org/nagt/publications/trenches/v8-n1/index.html)
12.01.2022 Mag. 2.9 (ML) #Earthquake near King Island, #Tasmania was recorded by our #seismometer in Burnie High School. Please check http://auspass.edu.au/ to access the data.
12.01.2022 Just got sent this link, looks like a fun professional development! https://au.earthwatch.org//Protecting-the-reefs-coastal-fr
11.01.2022 At the Australian #Earthquake Engineering conference. Is a 2% risk of building collapse in 50 years acceptable to you?
11.01.2022 #earthquake #SolomonIslands Mag: 6 (Mw) UTC: 29/01/2020 13:49:51; dep: 107 km recorded in our seismometer at Wavell State High School in #Queensland ... No tsunami warning was issued for this earthquake. #seismology
10.01.2022 Hi Everyone IMPORTANT announcement. We have finally got our own network code! This means if you are using IRIS tools to look at our data you you will have to change your settings. This includes jamaseis, the new IRIS station monitor and the seedlink. The new code is S1 instead of S. If you are using scream to view your data there is no change needed. If you are having any problems please email us on [email protected]
10.01.2022 Mag. 4.3 (ML) #Earthquake in #Burra #SouthAustralia was recorded by Our seismometer in Jamestown Community School, Marden Senior College and Murray Bridge High School. #seismology @JamestownCommunitySchool @mardenseniorcollege ... @MurrayBridgeHighSchool
10.01.2022 More #footyquakes https://t.co/kcKf9oFfeV
09.01.2022 Mag. 4.0 (ML) #Earthquake near #Pilbara, #WA was recorded by our #seismometer in Broome Senior High School. Please check AusPass (http://auspass.edu.au/) to access the data. Broome, Western Australia Broome Senior High School
09.01.2022 Making #footquakes #scienceweek https://t.co/2qf3c0svur
09.01.2022 3 of the AuSIS seismometers in ACT recorded SW of Yass #earthquake in #NSW: Melrose High School ,Daramalan College and Mount Stromlo Mt Stromlo Observatory. Heres how it looked across ACT stations.... #seismology IRIS Earthquake Science See more
08.01.2022 Mag. 3.6 (ML) #Earthquake near #Manilla, #NSW was recorded by our #seismometer in Peel High School which was the closest station to this earthquake. Please check AusPass (http://auspass.edu.au/) to access the data.
08.01.2022 NYSF science teachers summer school visit today. Toilet paper timeline.
07.01.2022 We picked up the earthquake today in WA on three surrounding seismometers. The closest was in Albany 119km to the SE.
06.01.2022 Magnitude 2.5 (ML) earthquake recorded by our seismometers at Melrose High School and Mount Stromlo in Canberra.
05.01.2022 Welcome @mccgriffith Marian Catholic College in Griffith NSW to the @AusisEdu family. Online and already exploring local #earthquakes with the students. Think they had a windy night last night? Usually the signal is noisey during the day not night.
05.01.2022 A couple of weeks ago our seismometers in St Josephs College Albany (AUALB station) detected a very clear shockwave signal of a fireball (aka bolide aka meteor) from the sky near Albany. This is one of the clearest fireball signals that has ever been recorded on our network. It is good to know that the Earth accretes about 15 tons of extraterrestrial material every day. But most of this is as microscopic, interplanetary dust and about 4500 meteorites greater than 1 kg hit ...the Earth annually. ANU Research School of Earth Sciences St Josephs College Albany
05.01.2022 Installed a seismometer at Broome Senior High School just over a week ago. Already they have recorded their 1st earthquake. A 6.6 off the coast that shook Broome
04.01.2022 Mag. 3.2 (ML) #Earthquake near #Adelaide in #SouthAustralia was recorded by our #seismometer in Cummins Area School. Please check http://auspass.edu.au/ to access the data. Cummins Area School ANU Research School of Earth Sciences Earthquake Monitor #seismology #Australia
03.01.2022 Yay Google have cleared our website. You may have to clear your cache and we are still waiting for Google search to clear the warning but you can safely access the page again. Please be patient for me to upload all the learning modules I am taking the opportunity to update them.
02.01.2022 Our AusPass data portal is starting to take shape. For the seismologists out there you can access all the AuSIS data there. http://auspass.edu.au It includes some research news about where we are using the data collected.
02.01.2022 Off to look for earthquakes in Watarru tomorrow then a visit to the school at Pukatja
02.01.2022 "The high degree of human activities in urban environments produces large background vibrations that makes it difficult to use data acquired in these areas for ...classical seismology. Seismometers installed within cities have been typically been used for the study of seismic hazard or for monitoring civil engineering problems. However, with the development of monitoring techniques based on the interpretation of the so-called seismic ambient noise, these data have gained scientific interest. Our objective is to discuss an additional utility of seismometers deployed within a city; its use as a tool to connect society with Earth sciences. Many citizen activities, from traffic to music concerts, produce vibrations that can be recorded seismically, and our experience shows that these records attract the attention of the media and social networks. With the emergence of low-cost and easy-to-use instruments in recent years, more citizens can now record ground motion and become interested in the interpretation of the recorded seismograms. The installation of permanent seismic networks in educational centers has proven to be a good approach to introduce students to Earth sciences at the national level and can also be developed at the urban scale using this new instrumentation. In this contribution we will first review the previous results related to the identification of the sources of vibration in urban areas and then present a new ongoing project based on the deployment of a seismic network in educational centers located in the city of Barcelona." https://www.frontiersin.org/articles//feart.2020.00009/full
02.01.2022 50 years since the Meckering #earthquake. We do get large earthquakes in Australia http://www.abc.net.au//remembering-meckering-eart/10361796
02.01.2022 This is a fabulous video explaining how we can minimise swaying in structures due to earthquakes and wind.
01.01.2022 Visiting some WA schools and I found the basalt at Bunbury after lively Q&A with year 3 to 6 at St Annes in Harvey
01.01.2022 If you want to see how we image inside the earth take a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S-024Cb5VE&feature=youtu.be
01.01.2022 We are jumping into #scienceweek at the Old Bus Depot with #scienceinaction come and visit us tomorrow!
