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Living on shaky ground: The science and story behind New Zealand's earthquakes. Auckland: Random House (New Zealand). ISBN 978-1-77553-688-8. Michael Upchurch (2021). "He Iwi Rū | Quake Nation: effective interactive data visualisation in the museum". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 32. Te Papa: 135– 151.
GeoNet also forecasts earthquake aftershocks for major earthquakes, such as the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. [3] The GeoNet app sends notifications about natural hazards to its users. An example of this is the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, where the app had sent a total of over 109 million notifications within two days. [ 4 ]
Adjusted for inflation, the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes caused over $44.8 billion in damages, making it New Zealand's costliest natural disaster and the 21st-most-expensive disaster in history. [12] [13] [14]
This list of natural disasters in New Zealand documents notable natural disasters and epidemics ... 2009 flu pandemic in New Zealand: 2010: Earthquake: 2: Darfield:
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703: air accident 9 Jun 1995: Tararua Range, near Palmerston North: 4 2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods: flood 27 Jan 2023 – 2 Feb 2023: upper North Island 3 1968 Inangahua earthquake: earthquake 24 May 1968: near Inangahua Junction: 3 2023 Auckland shooting: shooting 20 Jul 2023: Auckland CBD: 2 1966 Air New ...
Scientists recorded a slow-slip event in 2011 before the magnitude-9 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which killed more than 18,000 people and touched off the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.0 M w earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST (02:20 UTC).It was centred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 mi), [1] about 5 km (3 mi) south-east of Christchurch, [7] which had previously been devastated by a magnitude 6.2 M W earthquake in February 2011.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, just one day after a devastating cyclone forced a state of emergency across much of the country.. The quake occurred under the Cook Strait ...