Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 11:42 am
Twenty years ago, New Zealand’s natural hazards
monitoring was catapulted from weeks-long waits for
earthquake information to near instant data streams via
GeoNet that now sit underneath nearly all our natural hazard
science and emergency management writes EQC Chief
Resilience and Research Officer Dr Jo
Horrocks.
This month we’re celebrating
20 years of GeoNet, the natural hazards monitoring platform
established in 2001 by EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, which now
includes more than 700 sensors nationwide and the 24/7
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre supported by
MBIE.
The near instant data streams on earthquakes,
tsunamis, landslides and volcanoes are critical to helping
“Our larger businesses are doing very well, but our smaller and medium-sized businesses could do with more support,” says lead researcher University of Canterbury (UC) Adjunct Fellow Dr Tracy Hatton.Dr Hatton and co-researchers, UC Master of Disaster
Published 27 May 2021
Scientists are working to understand how long it might take for people to move out of harm’s way ahead of a future eruption near Auckland, New Zealand. “The next eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field could happen anywhere in the existing field, either on the land, or in the sea, so estimating how many people might be impacted carries a lot of uncertainty,” says one expert.
Scientists are working to understand how long it might take for people to move out of harm’s way ahead of a future eruption of the Auckland Volcanic Field.
“The next eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field could happen anywhere in the existing field, either on the land, or in the sea, so estimating how many people might be impacted carries a lot of uncertainty,” says the study’s lead researcher Alec Wild, PhD candidate from the University of Auckland.”
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 10:21 am
Scientists are working to understand how long it might
take for people to move out of harm’s way ahead of a
future eruption of the Auckland Volcanic Field.
“The
next eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field could happen
anywhere in the existing field, either on the land, or in
the sea, so estimating how many people might be impacted
carries a lot of uncertainty,” says the study’s lead
researcher Alec Wild, PhD candidate from the University of
Auckland.”
“An eruption is unlikely in our
lifetime but we know an eruption will occur in the Auckland
Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 10:19 am
New research has revealed that many New Zealand
businesses are left in the dark around how to make their
workplaces earthquake safe.
“Our larger businesses
are doing very well, but our smaller and medium-sized
businesses could do with more support,” says lead
researcher Dr Tracy Hatton.
Dr Hatton and
co-researchers, Sophie Horsfall from Resilient Organisations
and Toni Collins from the University of Canterbury were
funded by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to evaluate what
safety measures different organisations were using to reduce
risks and find out whether seismic safety is a priority for
New Zealand businesses.
“It is clear that seismic