Data collected from the seismometers in schools is used by a wide variety of people, including government agencies who monitor earthquakes and researchers who study the internal structure of the earth. Data is now available to everyone through the AusPass data portal www.auspass.edu.au.
Geological Survey of South Australia
Continent-arc collision in the Banda Arc imaged by ambient noise tomography, for Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 246-258, doi:10.1016.j.epsl.2016.06.011 Porritt, R.W., Miller, M.S., O'Driscoll, L.J., Harris, C.W., and Roosmawati, N. (2016)
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures, Science, eabd2438, doi:10.1126/science.abd2438. Lecocq, T. et al (76 authors), (2020).
Australian cities are quiet during lockdown. Earthquake scientists are making the most of it. Miller, M.S. & Moresi, L. N., The conversation, 17th July 2020.
C. Sippl, B. L. N. Kennett, H. TkalÄić, C. V. Spaggiari & K. Gessner (2016): New constraints on the current stress field and seismic velocity structure of the eastern Yilgarn Craton from mechanisms of local earthquakes, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2015.1130173 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08120099.2015.1130173
Kennett, B. L. N., E. Saygin, and M. Salmon (2015), Stacking autocorrelograms to map Moho depth with high spatial resolution in southeastern Australia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065345 http://rses.anu.edu.au/~brian/PDF-reprints/2015/grl65345.pdf
Yuan, Huaiyu (2015), Secular change in Archaean crust formation recorded in Western Australia, Nature Geoscience, 8, 808-813, doi:10.1038/ngeo2521 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n10/full/ngeo2521.html