29 Mar 2025

Earthquake resilience with Graham Leonard

From Saturday Morning, 10:45 am on 29 March 2025

Rescue workers walk past debris of a construction site after a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, following an earthquake. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)

Rescue workers walk past debris of a construction site after a building collapsed in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, following an earthquake. Photo: LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Photo: Wellington Lifelines: Regional Resilience Project

Volcanologist and GNS principal scientist Graham Leonard talks about the fault that caused the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

He talks to Susie about what a Wellington Fault earthquake could look like, plus how to stay resilient during the wider impacts like subsidence, tsunami and landslide.

Lloyd Homer, GNS Science - Wellington Fault line

Wellington fault Photo: Lloyd Homer, GNS Science