New quake threat: 150m dam could 'rapidly fail'
Civil Defence is warning that a 150m high dam is at risk of failure after heavy rain.
Civil Defence is warning that a 150m high dam is at risk of failure after heavy rain.
As Govt announces its relief package, Kaikoura businesses spell out what they need to survive.
Parts of CentrePort have been reopened and are ready for business while preliminary assessment on Statistics House begins.
Brits evacuated from the quake zone grateful to the people of Kaikoura.
Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce is tipped to announce a support package today for businesses and the 800 workers in the town.
Ten months after the destructive February 2011 earthquake, an independent review of the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management's response was undertaken.
Modern buildings in central Wellington should never have been so badly damaged in Monday's quake and only lucky timing prevented any deaths, a seismic engineer says.
The landscape around Kaikoura has been forever changed and is all too clear from above
A multi-million dollar racing car test track situated near Monday's mega-quake epicentre is "pretty much ruined", says its Australian IT tycoon owner.
Comments by Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki outrage rainbow community advocate and human rights commissioner.
Kaikoura's internationally famous "quake cows" are safe and sound and "back in business" today.
Prime Minister John Key has promised fast-track help to keep Kaikoura businesses on their feet.
Geotechnical engineers face an "unprecedented" challenge in tackling the many large landslides that have blocked quake-damaged Kaikoura's coastal State Highway 1.
The elevation of Monday's quake from a magnitude 7.5 to 7.8 makes it compare in size only with four other New Zealand quakes in the past 150 years.
Farmers in quake-battered North Canterbury are rallying together, pitching in for supplies, sharing gear, and helping out on damaged properties.
The change means aftershocks may be larger in magnitude for a longer period of time.
It was a day of rescuing travellers stranded in Kaikoura and reassuring those left behind as the PM dropped in to survey the scene in Kaikoura today.
The PM and Kaikoura's mayor have dismissed Brain Tamaki's comments blaming the devastating earthquakes on "gays, murderers and sinners".
What's it like to be part of the team at GNS Science when a big quake hits? Seismologist Dr Helen Anderson shares an insight.
Tonnes of food, water and supplies are being driven into earthquake-hit Waiau by big-hearted Cantabrians.
A block of apartments at a Wellington retirement village has been evacuated due to fears of suspected structural damage.
Seals are likely to have been killed but it isn't yet clear if the popular Ohau Point seal colony has been destroyed by the Kaikoura earthquake.
Elderly residents of a retirement village in the upmarket suburb of Khandallah are among those who have been evacuated.
Employers whose staff are struggling to cope following Monday's earthquake are being given advice on how to best support their employees.
Supermarket shelves in the earthquake-stricken region of North Canterbury will remain stocked if the Ports of Auckland has any say in it.
Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki has blamed earthquakes on gays, sinners, and murderers.
EQC chairman Maarten Wevers has defended building repairs in Christchurch in response to a petition for a royal commission.