There's a lot you can do to make your home safer and stronger for natural hazards. Every step you take will reduce the impact of a disaster on you and your family, so get started today.

There's a lot you can do to make your home safer and stronger for natural hazards. Every step you take will reduce the impact of a disaster on you and your family, so get started today.

A volcanic eruption in Auckland will likely result in slow moving rivers of lava flowing through densely populated areas, which is why our scientists are looking to La Palma for lessons from its 2021 ...

The tsunami that was caused by a M 9 earthquake in Chile hit the shores of New Zealand in the early hours of 15 August, taking 15 hours to arrive here. The tsunami and earthquake killed thousands of ...

The timestamp shown at the top right of the images is the time when the images were last refreshed. The previous 36 hours of sea level variations from all operational sites are displayed, oldest to ...

Felt earthquake reports are quantified using the New Zealand Modified Mercalli (MM) intensity scale. The MM scale grades the impact of an earthquake on people living on the earth's surface, and so can ...

It is not possible to visit a volcano every day, so we now use remotely operated cameras to supplement our observations. The cameras we use are specifically designed for remote operation. They are ...

The timestamp shown at the top right of the seismograph drum shown above is the time when this image was last refreshed. The previous four hours (240 minutes) of seismic signals (also known as traces) ...

An interactive, multi-layered map displaying the peak strong motion data that GeoNet collected during the last hour. Select a site to view the PGA (g), PGV (cm/s) and MMI values. Sites are coloured to ...

Dozens of slow-slip events (also known as "silent" earthquakes) have been detected in New Zealand since 2002. They occur up to 60 km below the earth’s surface where the Pacific Plate meets the ...

The size of an earthquake is often described using magnitude, which is the amount of energy released during an earthquake. However, not all of the energy released in an earthquake will necessarily be ...

Monitoring active volcanoes requires the use of several complementary techniques to ‘take the pulse of a volcano’. Collectively, this is known as volcano monitoring. The techniques we use to monitor ...