A moderately strong earthquake rattled Southland residents early today.

Problems highlighted by the Auditor-General in the way EQC dealt with homeowners affected by the Canterbury earthquakes have already been dealt with, the Government says.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has rocked central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital and nervous people to run out into the streets.

Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a strong magnitude 4.2 earthquake this morning.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck in the central Philippines, killing at least four people and collapsing and damaging buildings, radio reports and officials said.

A large earthquake located to the south of Raoul Island has triggered several quake alerts in New Zealand.

Auckland University and Kiwi firm Framecad have worked together on a new flooring system designed to cope better than traditional full concrete flooring in earthquakes.

The upper South Island was rattled by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake this morning.

A shallow earthquake has jolted Cantabrians this morning, even though it measured less than four on the Richter Scale.

A moderately strong earthquake has struck close to the West Coast town of Te Anau overnight.

A moderate earthquake jolted people in the lower North Island and upper South Island early today.

A tsunami siren which went off in Opotiki this morning was confirmed as a false alarm - but the 4.2 quake at 3.45am off White Island was very real.

Ben Crawford finds the design of the new Christchurch Cathedral lives up to the hype.

The canine heroes and victims of Christchurch’s earthquakes are immortalised in a new book by Laura Sessions and Craig Bullock.

Rescuers struggled to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, while the death toll from the massive temblor there rose to 285.

Alongside the carnage of Pakistan's massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

An application developed by Christchurch researchers allows people to walk its streets and see how they looked before the earthquakes.

Faults off the West Coast are capable of causing earthquakes up to magnitude 7.8, seismic research shows. They are the type that generate tsunamis and it's unknown when they will rupture.