PM Jacinda Ardern meets with the first responders and a police investigation is launched. Video / Pool / Alan Gibson / Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust / White Island Flights

The NZ Defence Force is due to approach White Island at first light today.

Monday's eruption ranks alongside some of the biggest disasters in NZ history.

Whakaari/White Island erupted at 2.11pm yesterday.

Volcanic eruption survivor recalls 2007 ordeal: "It was a horrific situation to be in."

The eruption has made major headlines around the world

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

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

"All our thoughts are with those affected at this stage," PM said.

The 6.4 magnitude quake was felt across the southern Balkans early Tuesday.

National test of civil defence alert hit phones across New Zealand this evening.

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

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 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. Video / Alan Gibson

Typhoon Lingling is expected to affect most of South Korea before hitting North Korea.

GeoNet recorded the moderate earthquake just after 7pm this evening.

The forecast for Dorian continues to be ominous and serious, particularly in Florida.

Aerial footage of the massive sea of moving snow that closed Tūroa ski field on Thursday.

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

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

Experts are baffled by shifting patterns of geyser eruptions in Yellowstone National Park.

The Fair family were in an LA bar 70 floors up when the 7.1 quake "violently" struck.

Council takes a "sit and wait" approach. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Susan Gedye speaks about the mud pool that appeared in her backyard.

NZ's most out-of-the-way, antiquated, rundown and least attractive inter-city bus station.

Mud pool opens up on Rotorua property. /Tīahomarama Fairhall