Seismology
Lake Taupō volcano rumbles
GeoNet has increased the alert level for the volcano below Lake Taupō for the first time, after a swarm of quakes around the lake this year. The super-volcano has been rattled by 40 tremors a week… Audio
The warning you might get before the next big quake
Five seconds warning could be enough to take action to protect yourself in a major shake. Does New Zealand need an earthquake early warning system? Audio
Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure… Video, Audio
Our Changing World - Studying past earthquakes
We climb into a trench dug across a fault line to learn about the science of paleoseismology - finding past earthquakes in sediment layers. Audio
Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault
A team of scientists are installing an array of seismic sensors along the South Island's Alpine Fault. Claire Concannon joins them to find out how and why. Video, Audio
Our Changing World - The Southern Alps Long Skinny Array
Claire Concannon joins a group from Te Herenga Waka as they deploy a seismic sensor on the Alpine Fault, part of a project to better understand how a slip on one part will impact ground shaking… Video, Audio
Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
Alsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. Audio
207km deep quake unlikely to result in significant aftershocks
Seismologist John Ristau says the 6.2 earthquake started with a "good solid bump" followed by a waving, swaying motion known. He told Lisa Owen deep quakes like this don't usually lead to significant… Audio
Barking at the supermoon
Claims that the proximity of the moon and homosexuality caused quakes surfaced in the media this week. Should the media have simply ignored them? Audio
Quakes continue to shake East Coast
The East Coast of the North Island continues to be rattled by earthquakes, with two sharp shocks this morning.
Today's quake East Cape's most dramatic in years
Today's earthquake was the most dramatic the East Cape has seen in recent years, but large quakes in the area are nothing new.
Convicted for science
Italian seismologist Giulio Selvaggi is visiting New Zealand to talk about his experience of being first convicted, and then acquitted, of manslaughter following a deadly earthquake in the Italian… Audio
Lucy Jones - 'The Earthquake Lady'
Dr Lucy Jones is among the world's most influential seismologists and, as a native of California, she also has the practical experience of living on shaky ground. Audio
Awakening from the wall of water
The resilience of the communities of Aceh Indonesia who experienced the tsunami of 26 December 2004, as captured by GNS Science geomorphologist Dr Noel Trustrum in the book Aceh Revives: Celebrating… Audio
Scanning a Plate Boundary
Seismic blasts across a tectonic plate boundary in the Wairarapa will help understand locked plates Audio