Watch: Sherwood residents face big earthquake clean-up
Kara Lynn left Christchurch after the 2011 earthquake and has now had a new fault line open up near her Sherwood property following Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Kara Lynn left Christchurch after the 2011 earthquake and has now had a new fault line open up near her Sherwood property following Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
The historic Hurunui Hotel in North Canterbury has been temporarily closed following Monday’s earthquake. But it’s owner is hopeful it will soon be declared safe to re-open.
4WD emergency team laden with supplies has been denied the ability to deliver the badly needed food and relief
Peter Dunne has echoed calls from the public to strip Destiny Church of its tax-exempt status.
Thousands of workers and residents of Wellington's CBD have been displaced, as engineers continue to detect damage incurred to buildings.
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Even after the quakes, eruptions and tsunami scares of the past decade, NZ still has lessons to learn about preparedness, writes Jamie Morton.
Just a few days ago, Waiau was cut off from civilisation.
The toll Monday's earthquake has had on Wellington is coming to light after at least four more buildings in the central city were evacuated yesterday.
COMMENT: On the morning of Monday November 14, 2016, the best little city in the world got ripped apart.
Lying on the ground next to Kaikoura Highschool's gymnasium wall was a pile of fractured concret bricks.
The Defence Force has now evacuated more than 800 people from Kaikoura.
A Civil Defence overhaul is inevitable following confusion over tsunami warnings after Monday's earthquake, the Government says.
Earthquake experts have looked at scenarios for both the capital and Auckland. They've crunched the numbers, finding potentially catastrophic scenarios.
BNZ's Harbour Quays building won't reopen for months following damage to CentrePort in the 7.8 earthquake.
A petition against Destiny Church's tax-free status is gaining momentum - with 102,000 signatures and climbing.
The probability of another plus-7 magnitude quake within the next month has fallen - but the chances of multiple large aftershocks remains a virtual certainty.
Why have there been so many landslides after this earthquake? Could we have known this would happen? Experts shed some light on Kaikoura's devastation.
Science reporter Jamie Morton talks to GNS Science earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge, who has been on the ground mapping damage around Marlborough.
There are going to be a lot of fit office workers in Wellington with the city's 2500 needing surveying.
The escalation of the Kaikoura Earthquake in magnitude from 7.5 to 7.8 now puts its power on a par with the equivalent energy release of 400 atomic bombs detonating.
Civil Defence is warning that a 150m high dam is at risk of failure after heavy rain.
Parts of CentrePort have been reopened and are ready for business while preliminary assessment on Statistics House begins.
Ten months after the destructive February 2011 earthquake, an independent review of the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management's response was undertaken.
The landscape around Kaikoura has been forever changed and is all too clear from above
Comments by Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki outrage rainbow community advocate and human rights commissioner.
Geotechnical engineers face an "unprecedented" challenge in tackling the many large landslides that have blocked quake-damaged Kaikoura's coastal State Highway 1.
The elevation of Monday's quake from a magnitude 7.5 to 7.8 makes it compare in size only with four other New Zealand quakes in the past 150 years.