Earthquake

Hundreds of New Zealanders with relatives in Nepal have been desperately trying to get in touch with their families in the wake of the deadly magnitude seven-point-eight earthquake that struck the… Audio

Kunda Dixit, editor of The Nepali Times, speaks to Sunday Morning from the devastated Nepalese capital Kathmandu. Audio

GNS Seismologist John Ristau is with us Audio

Goods fell from shelves, high-rise buildings swayed and panicked customers ran out of a hardware store, in a strong earthquake that hit central New Zealand this afternoon. Audio

Dr John Townend from Victoria University of Wellington is with us. Audio

Alarm, strong rolling earthquake has hit central New Zealand. Seismologist on quake. Top police commander says Livingstone case will cause great change. Auckland Council responds to Port chairman's… Audio

The small Marlborough town of Seddon has emerged unscathed from two earthquakes this morning. Audio

The Māori word of the week is: rū - earthquake. Rū ana te whenua. The earth quakes. Audio

Scores of children were evacuated from five East Cape schools after a large earthquake rocked the east coast of the North Island this morning. Audio

A strong, shallow earthquake struck the lower South Island last night, but caused no major damage. Audio

Cushla Norman reports from Japan on progress in the massive post tsunami rebuild Audio

Tsunami hazards for New Zealand were recently revised based on new knowledge about very large earthquakes on plate boundaries Audio

Tsunami hazards for New Zealand were recently revised based on new knowledge about very large earthquakes on plate boundaries Audio

Ten years after the event, Jack Perkins assembles a group of Edgecumbe residents to relive the experience, and trace its effects not only on the landscape but on their own lives. The result is a… Audio

On 24 May 1968 an earthquake hit Inangahua Junction, a tiny farming, sawmilling and coal mining community 40km east of Westport on the South Island's West Coast. The damage was severe, as 70 percent… Audio

A reconstruction from contemporary accounts and eyewitnesses, made in February 1981 by Jack Perkins, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hawkes Bay earthquake. Audio

80 years ago this week, at 10.46 am on February 3rd 1931, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale rocked Hawke's Bay. Fires completely destroyed downtown Napier. 258 peopled in the region… Audio

A re-creation of the earthquake which devastated the Buller region in June 1929: the destruction, the plight of the refugees, the struggle to break the isolation imposed by the shocks, and the costs… Audio

Veronika Meduna joins a geology field party to travel along the Wairarapa fault line 150 years after the 1855 earthquake. Audio