He will be traveling with University of Melbourne's Gary Gibson, on a one week mission sponsored by the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society.
The project is supported by the Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea with in-country logistics provided by Oil Search.
"Next Monday, Gary Gibson and Kevin McCue will be taking six digital accelerographs to Papua New Guinea to monitor the ongoing aftershock sequence of the February 25 major earthquake in the Southern Highlands," CQUni adjunct researcher and alumnus Michael Turnbull said.
"They hope to get enough data to outline the causative fault, to provide input into the earthquake code spectrum for design earthquakes in PNG, and to address concerns that oil/gas extraction operations could have been a contributing factor.
"A follow-up visit in two months will download the data and remove all instruments.
"The instruments are manufactured by ES&S in Melbourne and have been installed throughout the southwest Pacific and South East Asia. Earlier models were used very successfully in Bougainville and at various dam sites in Papua New Guinea."
Turnbull is lead seismologist with the Central Queensland Seismology Research Group.
