Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Community Risk Report
Earthquake Risk in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie - 2002
This study represents the most comprehensive and advanced earthquake risk assessment ever undertaken for any Australian city. It is focused on the economic losses caused by damage to buildings from earthquake ground shaking, but does not include the impacts from other, secondary hazards such as soil liquefaction and surface faulting. The study has adopted a probability approach which makes allowances for the inherent variability in natural processes as well as the uncertainty surrounding some knowledge about the event.
The results from this project will assist decision-makers involved in State and local government, policy development and the insurance, building and finance industries as well as engineers and architects to manage potential damage and loss of life from earthquakes in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. The results also have implications for the earthquake risk facing larger Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This is largely because of similarities between the earthquake hazard in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie areas and other parts of Australia and between the urban environments, particularly in relation to the composition of buildings.
- Earthquake Risk in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie - Summary booklet [PDF 2445kB]
- Chapter 2 - Introduction to urban geohazard risk assessment [PDF 345kB]
- Chapter 3 - Earthquake history, regional seismicity and the 1989 Newcastle earthquake [PDF 953kB]
- Chapter 4 - Earthquake hazard, Part 1 of 2 [PDF 4782kB]
- Chapter 4 - Earthquake hazard, Part 2 of 2 [PDF 4082kB]
- Chapter 5 - The elements at risk in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie [PDF 2546kB]
- Chapter 6 - Earthquake risk [PDF 1653kB]
- Chapter 7 - Discussion and conclusions [PDF 91kB]
- Appendix A-F [PDF 3959kB]
- Appendix G, Part 1 of 2 [PDF 2284kB]
- Appendix G, Part 2 of 2 [PDF 3357kB]
- Appendix H, I and references [PDF 1983kB]