A ‘strong’ magnitude 4.4 earthquake has hit the South Island 100km north of Christchurch. The earthquake occurred at 9.30am today and was centred 5km south of Culverden and 12km deep, GeoNet said.

The ‘science’ of earthquake prediction has been around since 1975, when the Chinese authorities said they had successfully predicted the Haicheng earthquake of 7.7 magnitude and evacuated the ...

Following the magnitude 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake in 2016, a communication breakdown meant Christchurch's sirens did not sound until two hours afterwards at 2am - an hour after Civil Defence issued an ...