Community safety sectors Emergency managers
Last updated:18 June 2024
Every sector we work with is managing the rapid acceleration of knowledge and capabilities within community safety. We help our collaborators navigate this growth by providing hazard profiles, event scenarios, data, tools, applications, and guidance needed to prepare for the future.
Working together
Our community safety team collaborate with Emergency Managers to:
- Determine gaps within current capabilities
- In preparing for hazard events, we inform evidence-based plans to better prepare communities for the potential consequences of hazard events by providing tools, data, and assessments that identify gaps in existing strategies.
- During a threat or hazard event, our tools can provide rapid and reliable situational awareness, and our data provides information about the number of people, dwellings, infrastructure, agricultural and environmental assets potentially exposed
Learn more about our emergency management collaborations geared towards improving the preparedness, response and recovery cycle of natural hazard events.
Top products
Recent earthquakes
Explore the details of recent earthquakes across Australia and around the world, and search Geoscience Australia’s record of past earthquakes.
Tropical Cyclone Scenario Selector Tool
Use this interactive tool for querying, visualising and downloading cyclone scenarios plausible future tropical cyclone scenarios used for risk management and planning.
Earthquake Scenario Selector Tool
Query, visualise and download earthquake scenarios using pre-generated scenarios that represent plausible events that can be used for earthquake risk management and planning.
Australian Exposure Information Portal (AEIP)
Develop a statistical summary of the number of people, dwellings, buildings, infrastructure assets, agricultural and environmental assets potentially exposed during a threat or hazard event.
Digital Earth Australia Hotspots
Detect areas producing high levels of infrared radiation, using our rolling archive of imagery and data.
Elevation Information System (Elvis)
Use the national portal of elevation datasets which describe the shape and height of Australia’s landforms and depth of the seabed.
Case study Assessing and improving Western Australia’s vulnerability to tropical cyclones
How scenario modelling helped emergency managers in Western Australia to mitigate the impacts of tropical cyclone hazards.
The selection of credible scenarios enables our sector to improve planning for response and recovery and, most importantly, inform mitigation strategies by having a scale of tangible events to plan against.
Senior Intelligence Analyst, The Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services
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Contact us
To find out how our natural hazard information and research could help you, please call the Community Safety team on 1800 800 173 or email hazards@ga.gov.au
Collaborate with us
To discuss how we can work together to manage the impacts of Australia's natural hazards, please call the Community Safety team on 1800 800 173 or email hazards@ga.gov.au
Work with us
To find out more about joining Geoscience Australia's Community Safety team, please email clientservices@ga.gov.au or visit our careers portal