Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

A powerful 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand’s North Island late Tuesday night local time, approximately 16 miles (10 kilometers) east of Eketāhuna in the Tararua district. The quake, which ...

Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

The general location of the offshore part of the Hikurangi subduction zone. While The Front Page is on its summer break, we are revisiting some of the biggest news stories from 2024. New episodes ...

The Aotearoa New Zealand Tsunami Gauge network, also known as the Coastal Sea Level gauge network, supports detection and analysis of potential tsunami threats arriving at New Zealand's coasts. It is ...

New Zealand’s tsunami threat level has been downgraded to a Beach and Marine threat, with authorities saying the “largest waves have now passed”. GNS Science updated its advice after residents ...

We just find the food from the tsunami, like noodles left behind." After a few days, international help began to arrive to support Indonesian recovery efforts. "Red Cross from New Zealand and ...

GeoNet uses seismic sensors able to characterise potential tsunami-generating earthquakes occurring off the New Zealand coast. It also operates or shares tsunami gauges across the greater New Zealand ...

Comment: Wellington may be most famous for earthquakes, but the tsunami that damaged the city 170 years ago proved it’s a ...

Think you’d know what to do in an emergency? Come put it to the test through a virtual reality (VR) simulation at the beach this summer. Tauranga Emergency Management staff will be visiting ...

Disaster stories are hugely popular and La Palma is just the latest hit in the growing genre. In his book Disaster Mon Amour, the film critic David Thomson identifies the filmmakers’ goal of creating ...