The continental Australia coordinates deviate by more than 1.5m from the 1994 figures

The Sydney reporter led the newly published study to show that the continent of Australia is moving, probably more than 1.5m from the previously published coordinates, and scientists at the Australian Institute of Geological Sciences will must recalculate the longitude and latitude of the country.

The current coordinates used, named Geocentric Datum of Australia , were last updated in 1994.

Because Australia lies on the fastest-moving continental plate in the world , the previously measured coordinates continue to change over time.

Large earthquakes often change the shape of a continental plate.

According to calculations by scientists, this continental array moves about 7cm north each year and may collide with the Pacific Plate, which is now moving about 11cm west each year.

The stress accumulation between these two continental plates when released may cause earthquakes.

The calculation of data must also rely on many other factors, such as large earthquakes that often change the shape of a continental array.

For example, an earthquake of 8.1 magnitude in the north of Australia's Macquarie Island on December 23, 2004 caused a distance of a few millimeters between Sydney and New South Wales, and Hobart, Tasmania state. .

Scientist Dan Jaksa of the Australian Institute of Geosciences is participating in the program of modernizing scientific data about Australia, saying that adjusting the data on coordinates is necessary because of the difference between the current position With the coordinates that the Global Satellite Positioning System (GPS) uses is growing.

Expected, new measurement data will be announced early next year.