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East Coast rattled by 5.3 quake
The East Coast was rattled by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake this morning.
The East Coast was rattled by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake this morning.
Nottinghamshire in England was hit by an earthquake, experts have confirmed, as social media sites were flooded with reports of a tremor.
A newly-discovered type of quake below the east coast has heaved the North Island closer to Chile - but only by the length of a pineapple lump.
Two earthquakes have shaken western Southland tonight, including a magnitude 6.2 quake of “severe” intensity.
A strong quake has shaken the lower east coast of the North Island this morning.
A team of 100 scientists and engineers has begun drilling a 1.3km-deep borehole into the Alpine Fault to gather information about the inner workings of the fault line.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the lower North Island around 2.30am this morning.
Politics playing a big part in questions raised by council offer.
A moderate earthquake rattled the Tararua District today.
Four years ago today, Cantabrians were tossed out of their beds at 4.35am.
Families of the 115 people killed in the CTV building collapse during the 2011 Canterbury quake are hopeful justice will be served by a criminal investigation.
A spate of small earthquakes around White Island today is not unusual and is nothing to worry about, seismologist John Ristau says.
"Whatever we pointed out - he said, 'no that's historical." A Christchurch couple say an EQC engineer who assessed their house falsely told them it was safe.
The most powerful earthquake to strike California for 25 years has heightened fears that the state may soon face a "mega-quake" with a strength exceeding 7.5.
The New York Times has named Christchurch as the second of 52 places in the world to visit this year.
A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan last night after lashing the country with rain and winds, leaving one person dead and more than 50 injured.
Lindsay Jones has no desire to knock down his 129-year-old church at the top of Queen St. But as things stand, the senior pastor and his congregation can't afford to keep it open either.
Only 10 years ago members of the congregation at St Benedict's Catholic church in inner-city Auckland raised about $2 million to lovingly restore their Victorian red brick church.
Heritage building owners are struggling financially, unable to upgrade their places, breaching banking covenants and forced to sell properties cheaply, says a landlord.
Feeling rattled? A series of earthquakes have shaken the lower North Island this morning.
A heartfelt apology has been issued to the families of the CTV Building collapse victims by the structural engineer who designed it.
Editorial: It is easy to sympathise with Local Govt NZ's misgivings about Labour's plan to take EQC levies off insurance premiums and add them to rates bills.
Labour is proposing a sweeping overhaul of New Zealand's disaster insurance regime including shifting EQC levies from insurance premiums