A multi-sport stadium that hosted major events for over 100 years was left abandoned after a devastating natural disaster.

Do New Zealanders really want to live in a multicultural country? And if so, would it be at odds with our bicultural ...

B.C. brokers should prepare to tell most of their clients some bad news if a major earthquake were to hit the province over ...

Article – RNZ The number of tsunami sirens along the Christchurch coast could be cut to as few as four, after an alert system review that found they cause confusion and delays during emergencies. 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 ...

But there is another possibility: The ground could liquefy beneath them. This phenomenon is called liquefaction and could cause buildings to sink into the ground. On June 16, 1964, a 7.4-magnitude ...

B.C. experiences several thousand earthquakes a year, but earthquakes strong enough to cause severe damage can be centuries apart. “There is no earthquake season,” said Sheri Molnar, lead researcher ...

A “great earthquake,” with a magnitude higher than 8.0, has not happened along the Cascadia subduction zone since January 26, 1700, when a magnitude 9 quake struck the region.

Ryan Burns / Monday, April 28 @ 4:29 p.m. / Environment, Science A Major Cascadia Zone Earthquake Could Cause Much of Coastal Humboldt to Rapidly Drop Into the Sea, New Study Finds ESPAÑOL ...

Peak ground shaking during the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake reached about 1.8 times the force of gravity, and more than twice the force of gravity during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake ...

A public civic memorial service will be held this Saturday to mark the 14th anniversary of the February 22, 2011, Christchurch earthquake. The ceremony will take place at Canterbury Earthquake ...