One of the world's most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand. With a 75% chance of it happening within the next 50 years ...

A Civil Defence controller who has led emergency responses for numerous floods and fires says its the people that have kept ...

A new study highlights the tsunami threat facing Southland, where a nearby earthquake zone is thought capable of unleashing ...

A major South Island civil defence exercise gets underway this week, with hundreds of people across three regions responding ...

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island (c. 480 km) and forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate. The ...

One of the world's most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand. The five largest continental transform earthquakes since ...

Hunter's Moon is Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel's latest and greatest ski mountaineering accomplishment.

The raw newness of New Zealand hits us on our first easy 7km roll down a gravelly path to the Tasman Valley, where our ride is wonderfully interrupted by alpine headwaters that we need to cross by ...

It will act on all 14 recommendations made in a damning Inquiry into last year's devastating and deadly weather events.

The Pacific and Australian plates collide and interact in complex ways around New Zealand ... slip faults mark the transition from the Alpine fault to the Hikurangi subduction zone.

One of the world’s most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand. With a 75% chance of it happening within the next 50 ...