New funding from Toka Tū Ake Earthquake Commission (EQC) has been awarded to a first-of-its-kind research project on infrastructure resilience to volcanic activity, led by Associate Professor Carol Stewart.
Research funded by Toka Tū Ake EQC is filling a ‘gap’ in existing knowledge about the immediate impact of earthquakes on rivers, including changing what we can predict about how they might change course or flood as a result. <img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2305/adfcd5939bdc9e6b6e44.jpeg' .
Geoscientist Jesse Kearse has returned from California with a treasure trove of earthquake data which he expects to be invaluable to explain and predict behaviour of fault lines in New Zealand. The scientist from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University .