A Kiwi plan to rebuild classrooms after the Nepal earthquakes is nearing completion.

The claim dates to ancient Greece, but science can't confirm animals can predict tremors.

Man on hunger strike outside Southern Response's offices has lost 6kgs in six days.

It's bad enough subsidising Aucklanders' sorry arses, now we've got to feel sorry for them

COMMENT: Many species could possibly pick up earthquake warnings that humans can't.

Police defence of CTV decision not to prosecute further angers families

Decision taken despite "significant" design deficiencies.

Boss of company based in building says evacuation order no surprise: 'this is Wellington'.

Emergency services are on high alert after LA jolted by strongest earthquake in years.

Seismologists closely watching a "swarm" of quakes recorded around high-risk Alpine Fault.

An introduction to the national system for managing earthquake-prone buildings. It explains why we have a national system and gives a brief overview of how the system works. / Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Schools are having to deal with more difficult behaviour post-Christchurch quake.

Commission inquiry will look at use of private investigators by state services.

A landslide between Wairoa and Gisborne created a lake which is rising at 60cm a day.

Real estate agent accused of negligence after falling masonry kills tenant.

White Island's crater lake has reappeared, as quakes detected at the island and Ruapehu.

A series of volcanic earthquakes is stirring beneath Mt Ruapehu.

Meet people "prepping" – a worldwide movement of steps to prepare for global catastrophe.

So far more than 1000 people have reported feeling shaking.

It could kill thousands, but there's much about our main geological threat we don't know.

Scientists set to install listening posts deep in the high-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone.

The quake measured 4.7.

Could NZ have a tsunami early warning system? A visiting Japanese scientist thinks so.

Animation showing the tsunami threat posed by a 'mega-thrust' quake off the east coast of New Zealand. Video/ingomar200

Undiscovered volcanic features could lie hidden not far from the Bay of Plenty's coast.

Reports of violent shaking after 7.5 magnitude quake strikes on Monday morning.

Deloitte has calculated how much the Christchurch earthquakes will cost the city council.

NZ's earliest settlement, the Wairau Bar, has since been hit by major quakes and tsunamis.

Scientists have launched an $8m effort to understand the threats landslides pose to us.

It took 11 minutes to read out the names of the 185 who lost their lives in the 2011quake.