Perth Community Risk Report
Cities Project Perth Report - 2005
This report is a major risk assessment project based on metropolitan Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Completed in June 2005, the report is the final publication in Geoscience Australia's Cities Project. Approximately 72% of Western Australia's population of around 1.3 million live in the Perth metropolitan area. Significant areas of Perth are situated along the banks of the flood prone Swan River and close to Australia's most active earthquake zone. There are several limestone belts to the north and south of Perth where karst systems have been discovered and the city's coastline suffers from coastal erosion as a result of high winds and fierce storms.
- Cities Project Perth Report - Summary booklet [PDF 1795kB]
- Index, acknowledgements and executive summary [PDF 2788kB]
- Chapter 1 - Introduction [PDF 695kB]
- Chapter 2 - Meteorological hazards [PDF 3515kB]
- Chapter 3 - Severe wind hazard [PDF 2522kB]
- Chapter 4 - Riverine flood hazard [PDF 4599kB]
- Chapter 5 - Earthquake risk [PDF 4010kB]
- Chapter 6 - Community recovery [PDF 610kB]
- Chapter 7 - Potential coastal erosion due to long-term sea level rise [PDF 6122kB]
- Chapter 8 - Conclusions [PDF 312kB]
- Appendix A - Wind hazard methodology [PDF 32kB]
- Appendix B - Perth spatial database metadata [PDF 730kB]
- Appendix C - Cost Models [PDF 61kB]
- Appendix D - Perth basin geology review and site class assessment [PDF 2273kB]
- Appendix E - On tsunami Hazard in Western Australia [PDF 460kB]