Earthquakes
Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure… Video, Audio
Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure…
AudioOur Changing World - Studying past earthquakes
We climb into a trench dug across a fault line to learn about the science of paleoseismology - finding past earthquakes in sediment layers. Audio
Earthquake shakes Wellingtonians awake
Many Wellingtonians had a rocky Sunday wake up, with a moderate earthquake shaking them up.
Kiwi earthquake tech goes global
Kiwi technology that can warn of an earthquake is going global. EQC and Massey University scientists have tested low cost early warning sensors, which gives notice of a quake. The project has made… Audio
Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes
Alison Ballance catches up with two earthquake researchers. Geologist Carolyn Boulton is a "fault finder", interested in how faults slide. And geophysicist Martha Savage eavesdrops on the earth to… Audio
Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes
Alison Ballance catches up with two earthquake researchers. Geologist Carolyn Boulton is a "fault finder", interested in how faults slide. And geophysicist Martha Savage eavesdrops on the earth to…
AudioOur Changing World - Finding faults
Alison Ballance meets geologist Dr. Carolyn Boulton, who is a ‘fault finder’, interested in how faults slide during earthquakes. Audio
Forecasting earthquakes - can we better predict ground shaking?
An earthquake engineering expert wants to change the way we predict how the ground will shake during an earthquake. Professor Brendon Bradley from the University of Canterbury is the recipient of a… Audio
Scientists working to detect seismic risk below North Island
Researchers hope sensors deployed at the sea floor will reveal the earthquake and tsunami risk below the lower North Island.
Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault
A team of scientists are installing an array of seismic sensors along the South Island's Alpine Fault. Claire Concannon joins them to find out how and why. Video, Audio
Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault
A team of scientists are installing an array of seismic sensors along the South Island's Alpine Fault. Claire Concannon joins them to find out how and why.
Video, AudioOur Changing World - The Southern Alps Long Skinny Array
Claire Concannon joins a group from Te Herenga Waka as they deploy a seismic sensor on the Alpine Fault, part of a project to better understand how a slip on one part will impact ground shaking… Video, Audio
Earthquake strengthening with carbon fibre
World-leading New Zealand research hopes to provide a cheaper solution for earthquake strengthening in higher-risk buildings. Kathryn speaks with Dr Enrique del Rey Castillo, University of Auckland… Audio
Victoria shaken by 5.8 earthquake, felt as far as Adelaide
Victoria has been struck by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake with tremors being felt across the state, in New South Wales and even as far as Adeleide. Worldwatch's Perlina Lau reports. Audio
The spectrum of research
Scientific research can be thought as on a spectrum from blue sky to applied - this week, two stories that span this. Claire Concannon learns about a blue-sky research project on bacterial evolution… Video, Audio
The spectrum of research
Scientific research can be thought as on a spectrum from blue sky to applied - this week, two stories that span this. Claire Concannon learns about a blue-sky research project on bacterial evolution…
AudioShaking up earthquake engineering
Award-winning structural engineer and designer of low-cost technology to make buildings more resilient in earthquakes, Dr Ashkan Hashemi has developed a means of absorbing and dissipating seismic… Audio
Franz Josef emergency services on Alpine Fault must be moved - Westland mayor
Emergency services based on top of the Alpine Fault in Franz Josef must be urgently moved, the mayor says, after experts forecast a higher likelihood for a devastating quake in the next 50 years.
Alpine Fault rupture likely in next 50 years - report
New research finds there's a high chance of the Alpine Fault rupturing in the next 50 years, with an earthquake measuring magnitude eight or higher.
The faultline - which runs up the spine of the… Audio
