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Geologists from GNS Science will spend the next six months collecting information on buildings and infrastructure in Pacific Island countries to measure vulnerability and risk from earthquakes and cyclones in the southwest Pacific...

Geologists from GNS Science in New Zealand have announced their participation in a joint initiative to study buildings and infrastructure in Pacific Island countries aimed at measuring their vulnerability to natural hazards such as earthquakes and cyclones...

For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution (JR) were at work investigating sea-level change...

This paper re-establishes standard advice on what to do in an earthquake, in response to some public concern both in the United States of America and in New Zealand, regarding widely circulated 'triangle of life' advice from Doug Copp, rescue chief and

Every year the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management working in collaboration with Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups around New Zealand, promotes Disaster Awareness Week, a week of activities aimed at raising awareness of hazards and the need to be prepared...

New Zealand communities will be better prepared for natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods and other climate change issues, thanks to a partnership with a United States disaster research centre...

Community response and recovery from disasters is the subject of a presentation at Massey's Wellington campus as the final instalment of the week-long Emergency Management Summer Institute hosted by...

The earthquake that has struck the Abruzzo region of Italy is a tragic reminder that New Zealanders need to be prepared for earthquakes here...