Source: David Kyle. Heavy flooding is effecting Wellington roads including main highways.

Share market investors are expected to be "gun-shy" and hold off from big trades until they believe the aftershocks are over.

The energy unleashed in the Kaikoura earthquake was equivalent to what could power Christchurch for an entire year.

HMNZS Canterbury is sailing to Kaikoura loaded with aid supplies and will bring back tourists and residents.

The New Zealand sharemarket held up well today, but the worst could be yet to come as aftershocks threaten the country.

Most of Spark's South Island broadband and landline network is hanging by a thread. A cable running along the island's east coast

The now-named Kaikoura Earthquake triggered 100,000 landslides in Northern Canterbury and southern Marlborough.

New Zealand shares rose, led by companies that stand to benefit from earthquake repairs such as Fletcher Building and Metro Performance Glass.

Scientists are trawling through data to see how New Zealand has shifted following the latest quake.

Power is gradually being restored in Kaikoura, but sewerage systems and water supplies are still down and it could be days before they are back up and running, Civil Defence says.

Lorde has tweeted words of kindness for Kiwis affected by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that killed two and has caused ongoing havoc. Ella

Joining Tristram Clayton from inside his quake ravaged Wellington apartment is NZ Herald New Zealand political journalist Barry Soper.

The Sky Tower will be lit in black and white tonight, as a mark of solidarity with the rest of the country following today's earthquakes. Acting

Join Tristram Clayton as he talks to Newstalk ZB reporter Chelsea Daniels in Waiau. The epicenter of this morning’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake was directly under this small north Canterbury settlement, population 250.

Even the Large Hadron Collider - 18,000km away in Switzerland - reported "feeling" the earthquake.

The largest supermoon in seventy years has been people questioning whether there’s any connection to this morning’s earthquake. Join Tristram Clayton as he learns more from University of Melbourne Associate Professor of active tectonics, Mark Quigley.

Join Tristram Clayton as he discusses what is ahead for commercial landlords in earthquake damaged areas with NZ Herald Property Editor Anne Gibson.

Join Tristram Clayton as he talks to GNS Science seismologist John Ristau on the South Island earthquake.

Join Tristram Clayton as he talks to Newstalk ZB host Chris Lynch from Christchurch about this mornings events. For Christchurch residents who lived through the devastating quake of 2011 this morning’s shake was a terrifying reminder of the past.

Scientists investigating the mechanics of the earthquake say it faulted in the same way the February 22, 2011, Christchurch Earthquake did.

Source: Instagram @thekevinkwok. As more than 600 firefighters battle 48 blazes across NSW, authorities are pleading with the public to stop taking selfies in front of the flames.

Ultra-sensitive fibre-optic sensors extending nearly a kilometre below the Southern Alps will transform what we know about one of the biggest earthquake threats facing New Zealand.

Science reporter Jamie Morton talks to GNS Science earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge about a renewed effort to catalogue a nationwide web of active faults threatening New Zealand.

At least twenty people were injured in yesterday’s quake. Measuring 6.6 the earthquake is the strongest to hit Italy in decades and is the fourth to hit central Italy in three months. Italians have been warned to expect several more large aftershocks.

The major threat that the South Island's Alpine Fault poses to New Zealand has been front and centre of a Civil Defence conference in Queenstown this week.

Collating data on eruptions, earthquakes and gas emissions promise new predictive tools.

Source: YouTube: Deep Carbon. On average, 40 volcanoes on land erupt into the atmosphere each month. Deep Carbon Observatory scientists are studying volcanic emissions at sites around the world, and will more than triple the number of permanent volcano gas monitoring stations from 2012-2019.

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A Franz Josef glacier guide sat covered in his own blood awaiting rescue after getting caught in an avalanche at the top of the Landsborough Valley last week.