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Scientists have dug a 90m-long trench in Hawke's Bay in search of evidence of past earthquakes.

Official advice in an earthquake quake is to 'drop, cover, hold.' But is this what we actually do? And what happens if we do something else?

Researchers say councils need to be doing much more to ensure homes and buildings aren't wiped out when a mega-tsunami eventually strikes the east coast of the North Island.

Whakaari / White Island remains in an steady elevated state of unrest, but no further lava has come to the surface.

Tsunami detection times in the south-west Pacific are soon to drop from hours to minutes. Audio

The two people whose bodies were still unrecovered after the eruption at Whakaari have been confirmed dead by the Chief Coroner.

GNS Science says magma believed to be just beneath the floor of the crater has now risen to the surface.

The false alarms in the Bay of Plenty over the weekend that caused fear of a tsunami are a timely reminder of NZ's alert system, and why we don't have a nationwide tsunami siren network.

White Island Tours has started taking people to Moutohorā/Whale Island for the first time since the Whakaari/White Island eruption five weeks ago.

Whakaari-White Island still remains in an elevated state of unrest after a major eruption in early December that took the lives of 20 people.

Families of victims of the eruption are preparing to mark a month since the devastating blast that took the lives of 19 people. Meanwhile, 26 others are still in hospital recovering.

The public is being asked to help find five important earthquake recording instruments - each as large as a washing machine - lost at sea. The problem is, they could be anywhere along the North…

Whakaari/White Island remains active and while the no-go zone around the island was reduced on Monday, GNS Science staff still can't go back for standard operations.

Patients injured in the eruption face a difficult Christmas although some of those burned in the volcanic eruption are starting to improve, the chief medical officer at the Counties Manukau DHB says.

Police are asking the public to be on lookout for two people still missing after the Whakaari / White Island eruption, while at beaches in the Eastern Bay of Plenty over the next few days.

White Island Tours is very professional and takes safety seriously, the company's auditor says.

Police have confirmed they will scale down the search operation for two Whakaari /White Island eruption victims in the next few days.

Light ashfall and poor weather is continuing to hamper the search for two missing bodies off Whakaari/White Island.