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M 7.3 Buller (Murchison) Mon, Jun 17 1929
Cracks in a road in Greymouth, after the 1929 Murchison earthquake, 1929. [Ref #: 1/2-091674-F Part of: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society: Photographs (PAColl-5376)] The earthquake ...
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New Zealand Tsunami Gauge Network
The timestamp shown at the top right of the images is the time when the images were last refreshed. The previous 36 hours of sea level variations from all operational sites are displayed, oldest to ...
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Earthquake Drums
The timestamp shown at the top right of the seismograph drum shown above is the time when this image was last refreshed. The previous four hours (240 minutes) of seismic signals (also known as traces) ...
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Earthquake Intensity
Felt earthquake reports are quantified using the New Zealand Modified Mercalli (MM) intensity scale. The MM scale grades the impact of an earthquake on people living on the earth's surface, and so can ...
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Strong Motion Data Map
An interactive, multi-layered map displaying the peak strong motion data that GeoNet collected during the last hour. Select a site to view the PGA (g), PGV (cm/s) and MMI values. Sites are coloured to ...
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Earthquake forecasts
We get asked two questions a lot: what is an earthquake forecast and why do I need to know about them? GNS Science has been producing earthquake forecasts since the late 1990s, but it wasn’t until the ...
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About GeoNet
New Zealanders live on the edge. Depending on their location, it might be the edge of the Australian Plate or it might be the edge of the Pacific Plate. The active Pacific-Australian Plate boundary ...
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Earthquake Glossary
A fault that is likely to have another earthquake sometime in the future. Faults are commonly considered to be active if they have moved in the last 10,000 years. The outermost layer of the earth, ...
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Earthquake FAQ
The Earth's entire outer surface is like a hard shell, which is broken into smaller pieces called 'tectonic plates'. New Zealand is on the boundary between two of these plates, called the Australian ...
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FITS System Deprecation: Transition to Tilde Common Time Series API
GeoNet is currently migrating its data from the legacy FITS database to the modern Tilde common time series API. This change is part of our effort to phase out the outdated FITS system and move to a ...
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A collaboration between Science and Operations
The NGMC receives live feeds from monitoring equipment located all around Aotearoa New Zealand, provided via the GeoNet system, and data from international stations. Earthquakes are monitored using a ...