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A survivor's tale: Victims 'likely to be injured by debris and hot rocks'
Volcanic eruption survivor recalls 2007 ordeal: "It was a horrific situation to be in."

White Island erupts: Disaster dominates international headlines
The eruption has made major headlines around the world

White Island erupts: Five dead and the toll expected to rise
Latest from the White Island explosion.

Focus Live: One confirmed dead in White Island eruption as police say 'there will likely be more' fatalities
Focus Live: One confirmed dead in White Island eruption as police say 'there will likely be more' fatalities.

Focus: White Island volcanic eruption
Focus: White Island erupts. Video / Alan Gibson / George Novak / Mark Mitchell / @allessandrokauffmann / @alismoura / @sch

Focus Live: Critical injuries reported on Whakaari / White Island
Focus Live: Critical injuries reported on Whakaari / White Island

Focus Live Earlier: Volcanic eruption on Whakaari / White Island
Focus Live Earlier: Volcanic eruption on Whakaari / White Island.

100 people on Whakaari/White Island when it erupted
Up to 100 people could have been near or on White Island when it erupted.

Emergency alert test: Why your phone went off loudly tonight
National test of civil defence alert hit phones across New Zealand this evening.

Middlemarch fire now under control
Middlemarch fire now under control. Video / ODT / Tom Neunzerling

No amount of planning can prepare NZ for a disaster
Disaster officials have warned the effects will be felt far and wide.

A shallow 5.4 magnitude earthquake has struck 30km east of Wairoa
A shallow 5.4 magnitude earthquake has struck 30km east of Wairoa.

Swept away: Ten years after tsunami took their daughters
A decade has past since sisters Rebecca and Petria Martin died in the Samoan tsunami.

Focus: GNS volcanologist Brad Scott on the current state of activity on White Island
Focus: GNS volcanologist Brad Scott on the current state of activity on White Island. Video / Alan Gibson

Vertical evacuation: How low-lying communities can ride out tsunamis
Vertical evacuation buildings considered to help people in Napier survive tsunamis.

Reunion to remember NZ rescue efforts in Taiwan quake 20 years ago
Official recognition ceremony will be held at Auckland Town Hall on October 4.

Typhoon leaves thousands of South Korean homes powerless
Typhoon Lingling is expected to affect most of South Korea before hitting North Korea.

Watch: Controlled avalanche's 'destructive force' on Mt Ruapehu
Aerial footage of the massive sea of moving snow that closed Tūroa ski field on Thursday.

A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin. Video / Matai Newman / Sam Crosson

A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin. Video / Matai Newman / Sam Crosson

World's biggest supervolcano 'acting erratically'
Experts are baffled by shifting patterns of geyser eruptions in Yellowstone National Park.

'People were sobbing': Kiwi family's terror as quake hits
The Fair family were in an LA bar 70 floors up when the 7.1 quake "violently" struck.

Watch: Mud pool expands overnight
Council takes a "sit and wait" approach. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Rotorua mud pool: House occupant thought it was an earthquake
Susan Gedye speaks about the mud pool that appeared in her backyard.

Whanganui's dark, cold, isolated, risky bus shelter is a heritage building we don't need
NZ's most out-of-the-way, antiquated, rundown and least attractive inter-city bus station.

Mud pool opens up on Rotorua property
Mud pool opens up on Rotorua property. /Tīahomarama Fairhall

Why a big Mt Taranaki eruption just got more dangerous
Deadly pyroclastic flows from Taranaki eruptions can spread further than once thought.

The Hikurangi subduction zone
The Hikurangi subduction zone: what is it and how can we all prepare? / East Coast LAB

Flash floods, earthquake in Indonesia kill over 80
The disaster-prone country has been hit by an earthquake and torrential rain.