Shaky New Zealand
Discover our Planet Earth and Beyond resources for NZ Curriculum levels 1 and 2 and find out why New Zealand...
Many New Zealanders have felt the shake of an earthquake, and most students are aware of big earthquakes that have...
Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth is an activity that uses a team approach to finding environmentally friendly sources of geothermal energy. Ākonga take on the roles...
Aotearoa New Zealand experiences a lot of geological activity – the land is right at the junction of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates – making...
What happens to communities after an earthquake? What steps do they need to take? Are there things we could do now to help protect them in...
Three years ago, the identification of Zealandia as a continent made global headlines. Now, newly published results from the scientific drilling expedition reveal the largely submerged...
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake caused sudden large-scale changes along the coastline. The intertidal zones were lifted up to 6 metres in some places. In the media,...
Aerial imaging is not new, and scientists have been using data gathered from manned flights for decades. In recent decades, Earth-oriented satellites have become the dominant...
A visitor to the seismic engineering laboratories and test centres at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, is likely to meet researchers and students of many nationalities....
New Zealand scientists have learned to ‘read’ the land and its features. This information is extremely important in a country that sits across the Pacific and...
In March 2018, JOIDES Resolution, a large scientific research vessel, headed out to sea to research the Hikurangi subduction zone on expedition #375. This article is...
One of the world’s largest scientific research ships, JOIDES Resolution, undertook six expeditions in 2017/18, exploring New Zealand waters to probe some of the 21st century’s...
At present, it is not possible for scientists to accurately predict the time, location or strength of earthquakes, nor to tell if a swarm of small...
Monitoring our world using artificial sensors Artificial sensors enable us to overcome the limitations of our human senses and extend them in novel and useful ways,...
The 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake was a complex sequence of ruptures that included 12 major faults and nine lesser faults. The initial rupture started on...
As New Zealanders looking to the future, we are faced with many opportunities – and challenges. These include improving the health of all our people, advancing...
Discover our Planet Earth and Beyond resources for NZ Curriculum levels 1 and 2 and find out why New Zealand is home to so many earthquakes...
New Zealand has volcanoes stretching from the Bay of Islands down to Otago. Many of our volcanoes are extinct (no longer active), some are dormant (not...
The Earth is an enormous place. There is so much that we don’t yet know about what happens on the surface of the Earth, so how...
We live in a very exciting country. A day’s drive in a car can take us from snowy mountains, past geysers and hot mud pools to...
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