Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

The last of the Reading Cinema car park building was brought down on Tuesday.

The 4.8 quake struck 20km southwest of Cheviot at 10.19am.

A new book explores the drama, the scientific puzzle and the human spirit of the people who live there.

The magnitude 4.7 quake is described as having a "strong" intensity, and hit 15km south-west of Te Araroa at 6.34am.

GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.

These sisters will grow up wondering what their big brother would have been like.

Breeding colony of 2000 seals north of Kaikoura at risk as part of SH1 rebuild.

COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.

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It may be wondered whether a country of NZ's size and population is well served by such a fragmented civil defence organisation.

COMMENT: The November 14 Kaikoura earthquake and its widespread damage is a reminder that nature imposes a running cost on all our infrastructure.

A group who lost their only children in the Christchurch quake feel failed by two Govts.

Nearly 800 people reported feeling the 4.8-magnitude aftershock that has struck near Culverden in North Canterburty this afternoon.

If ever there was a compassionate ground to grant visitors a permanent visa to NZ it is surely those who lost children in Christchurch earthquake.

Chinese parents who lost their only child in Christchurch earthquake are pleading with govt to grant them lifelong visas so they can visit children's graves.

Some Wellington building owners have asked for more time to test their buildings after last year's quake.

Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.

Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.

The report into the effectiveness of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is unbalanced and misses the point, Minister Gerry Brownlee says.

An engineer's report raised safety concerns around some floors of the office block, months on from the Kaikoura earthquake.

The young son of murder victim Alexsis Tovizi is among scores of traumatised children in desperate need of counselling after last November's earthquake.

The quake was just 5km deep and 120km west of Te Anau.

COMMENT: Many people seem to freeze like a possum in the headlights at the idea of reading their insurance policy.

The earthquake struck in the Bay of Plenty this evening, 15km south-west of Te Kaha. GeoNet reported the shake as "moderate'' in intensity.

There was nothing unusual about the late-night 5.1 quake that shook Marlborough and the lower North Island on Wednesday, says a scientist.

Earthquakes could have contributed to the contamination of Havelock North's water.

One of New Zealand's most-identifiable buildings closed for at least two years.

Beds and houses shook uncontrollably in the late-night quake, scaring thousands of people.

A 5.1 magnitude quake has struck north-east of Kaikoura late tonight.