COMMENT: People of Lombok need help to recover from the earthquake.

150 years ago, NZ's only documented fatal tsunami hit. What can we learn from it today?

Death toll from the first quake on Sunday is now believed to be at least 227 people.

Kiwi who experienced the Christchurch earthquake said this was much more terrifying.

Tourists evacuated by ship from three islands near the tremor's centre.

Aucklander spent night after the earthquake looking for survivors.

More than 1000 claims have been made to EQC this year after storms and ex-cyclones.

Wind-driven wildfires have destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others.

"The main priority has been to find survivors and rescue as many people as possible."

Researchers have explored the "identity fusion" forged by the Christchurch Earthquake.

Paula Morris, 52, on a dramatic year of two halves.

Two sub-seafloor quake labs begin "listening" to NZ's high-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone.

Associate Professor Tom Wilson from Canterbury University, whose specialist area is disaster risk and resilience, speaks on the impacts of an Alpine Fault quake. Source: Youtube / @EMSouthland

Man ordered to vacate his Dunedin home following sinkhole scare.

Andrew Thomson of Otago was feeding his fish outside when a sinkhole opened up.

A Mt Taranaki eruption could see fast-moving, hot ash flows spreading kilometres around.

NZ experts question new US study on Taupo suggesting "super-eruptions" are well signalled.

The claim dates to ancient Greece, but science can't confirm animals can predict tremors.

Over 79,000 Auckland homes are without power, with more strong winds predicted.

Seventy per cent of the 305 homes damaged by the storm and flood have been repaired.

COMMENT: Kaikoura, Chch quakes prove we can't afford to be complacent about disasters.

Researchers exploring innovative ways to tackle NZ's poor level of disaster-preparedness.

Seismologists closely watching a "swarm" of quakes recorded around high-risk Alpine Fault.

Australia is experiencing incredibly protracted fire seasons.

Meet people "prepping" – a worldwide movement of steps to prepare for global catastrophe.

The terms of reference for the inquiry centred on Southern Response has been released.

850 tonnes of mud and sand flushed away seafloor life in Kaikoura Canyon.

Cyclone Hola set to lash parts of the country - but it won't be here long.

The University of Auckland will look at how land is moving on 10 slopes around the city.

It could kill thousands, but there's much about our main geological threat we don't know.