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Our sleeping taniwha: Hikurangi's tsunami threat

It could kill thousands, but there's much about our main geological threat we don't know.

Scientists to probe NZ's tsunami danger zone

Scientists set to install listening posts deep in the high-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone.

Rude awakening: 4.7 quake jolts Kaikoura region

The quake measured 4.7.

Hikurangi tsunami warning system: Is it possible?

Could NZ have a tsunami early warning system? A visiting Japanese scientist thinks so.

Tsunami threat to NZ

Animation showing the tsunami threat posed by a 'mega-thrust' quake off the east coast of New Zealand. Video/ingomar200

Undiscovered volcanoes may be off BOP coast

Undiscovered volcanic features could lie hidden not far from the Bay of Plenty's coast.

Massive earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea

Reports of violent shaking after 7.5 magnitude quake strikes on Monday morning.

The cost of the earthquakes

Deloitte has calculated how much the Christchurch earthquakes will cost the city council.

Evidence of multiple tsunamis, quakes at one of NZ's earliest settlements

NZ's earliest settlement, the Wairau Bar, has since been hit by major quakes and tsunamis.

New study: Massive earthquake 'more likely' around Pacific 'ring of fire'

Quake activity has returned to the Ring of Fire as scientists fear a "big one" is coming.

Quake system could give one minute warning

Researchers are looking into how an earthquake warning system could work in New Zealand.

Kiwi in Taiwan: 'All the roads were cracked'

Kiwis in Taiwan used to quakes but 'this was bigger'.

Hawke's Bay earthquake survivor recalls experience

Two 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake commemorations will take place at the weekend.

Quake fault-line study plans for 'big one'

Fault-line monitors at Dannevirke, Weber and Akitio part of major scientific programme.

Tower to close Christchurch office after quake plan

Tower has fewer than 300 open Canterbury earthquake claims

Spate of quakes recorded around Cook Strait

It's unclear if the shakes were Kaikoura aftershocks or typical Cook Strait seismicity.

5.1 earthquake shakes central New Zealand

More than 4700 people, including some from as far away as Auckland, felt the shaking.

Tsunami warnings cancelled after 7.9 Alaska quake

7.9 quake is unlikely to have caused a tsunami that will affect New Zealand.