Laura Wallace
Slow-slip event beneath Kapiti could help predict larger quakes
A slow-slip earthquake rumbling beneath the Kapiti Coast could help scientists predict when a devastating earthquake might hit.
After five years of being "stuck" to the overlying Australian plate… Audio
Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
Alsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. Audio
Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
Alsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
AudioOur Changing World for 1 April 2021
In this week's retrospective, Alison Ballance looks at the 'big ones': a big earthquake in Kaikōura in 2016 and a big science effort to understand it. Audio
85 quakes follow slow-slip event off East Coast
Eighty-five small earthquakes have been detected off Gisborne and the Mahia Peninsula since Monday - all triggered by a major slow-slip event, according to scientists. Our reporter Sarah Robson spoke… Audio
Understanding New Zealand's largest fault
New Zealand's first underwater observatories are recording the 'creaks and groans' of our largest fault to better understand slow-slip earthquakes. Audio
Understanding New Zealand's largest fault
New Zealand's first underwater observatories are recording the 'creaks and groans' of our largest fault to better understand slow-slip earthquakes.
AudioOur Changing World for 17 May 2018
A rescue mission to return mistletoe to Wellington city, and a research trip to study the Hikurangi subduction zone, home to some of New Zealand's largest earthquakes. Audio
Mission to study NZ's largest fault line sets sail
An ambitious mission to lower two sub-seafloor observatories into the Hikurangi subduction zone gets underway next week. The Hikurangi subduction zone off the east coast is New Zealand's largest… Audio
Voyage to discovery: drilling to diagnose slow slip earthquakes
GNS and NIWA scientists are preparing to go on two voyages, joining the International Ocean Discovery Programme, onboard research ship Joides Resolution, alongside scientists from 26 countries… Audio
Complexity - six months of Kaikōura earthquake science
Six months after the destructive magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, scientists are still unravelling what happened during this very complex seismic event. Video, Audio
Complexity - six months of Kaikōura earthquake science
Six months after the destructive magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, scientists are still unravelling what happened during this very complex seismic event.
Video, AudioSilent quakes
Laura Wallace of GNS explains what silent quakes are and what they do. Audio
Underwater Earthquake Observatory
Scientists are trying to better understand undersea quakes, and in order to do so, they're creating an underwater earthquake observatory off the east coast. Audio
Investigating slow slip earthquakes with HOBITTS
Laura Wallace a research scientist at The University of Texas and project leader of a pioneering undersea quake project in Hawkes Bay, known as HOBITTS (The Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of… Audio, Gallery
New Zealand A to Z - W for Westshore
New Zealand A to Z today is W for Westshore. The seaside community on the northwest fringe of Napier. Audio
HOBITSS in undersea study to investigate 'silent earthquakes'
A group of seismologist from the United States, Japan, and New Zealand, are measuring slow-slip earthquake activity in Poverty Bay, in the biggest experiment of its kind. It is part of a staged… Audio
Friend of rider killed in UK not calling for further safety
A good friend of the New Zealand rider killed at the Somerford Park Horse Trials in the UK has described what happened as a freak accident. Audio
Silent Earthquakes
GNS Science and NIWA scientists explain their plans to drill offshore Gisborne to study silent earthquakes. Audio
Our Changing World - Tectonics
People in Papua New Guinea tell legends about islands drifting away from the mainland - and now geologists are finding that there is truth in these ancient stories. Audio
