The quake detected on the drum at Urewera in the Bay of Plenty A large 6.4 magnitude Kermadec Trench earthquake shook New Zealand in the early hours of this morning. The quake occurred at a depth of 33 km and was widely felt from Auckland to as far south as Dunedin Data from Geonet: Reference…
Not to be outdone by the tremblors rumbling around the South Island, the North Island too has experienced a number of sizable earthquakes in recent days. Most noticably a 5.4 that rocked Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay on Friday 25 March and a magnitude 4.5 that hit 70 km NE of Whakatane just after 5am this…
Read about Ken Ring’s predictions and his side of the Campbell Live interview here No ‘big’ earthquake for Christchurch on 20 March, although there was a shallow 5.1 aftershock at 9.47pm that was felt widely in the South Island and the jolt was likened by some to the big quake of 22 February. It was…
“An eruption is coming, warns GNS Science volcanologist Dr Graham Leonard, and anyone living pretty much north of Wellington should be prepared. Leonard is part of a group of volcano experts advising local bodies, emergency services, government agencies and district health boards at a conference in Taupo this week, on how they can best prepare…
The Trademe board was buzzing in the early hours of this morning with posters scared stiff about a prolonged swarm of shallow earthquakes that were hitting Whakatane and the Bay of Plenty overnight, it shows how frightening and disruptive shallow quakes can be for people living near to the epicentre: “Massive quakes hit bay of…
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