Earthquakes on Our Changing World

Collection items

• Mini-seismometers

  21 Jun 2012

  Volunteers in Christchurch are collecting a huge amount of earthquake data with mini-seismometers and their home computers Audio

• Earthquakes and Soft Soils

  14 Jun 2012

  Seismologist Bill Stephenson explains why soft soils are often severely affected by earthquake shaking Audio

• Earthquake Anniversary

  23 Feb 2012

  University of Canterbury geologist Mark Quigley recalls his personal experience of the Canterbury earthquakes Audio

• Scanning a Plate Boundary

  science

  2 Jun 2011

  Seismic blasts across a tectonic plate boundary in the Wairarapa will help understand locked plates Audio

• Aftermath of the Big Fiordland Earthquake

  1 Oct 2009

  Simon Cox was part of the GNS Science 'Rapid Response' team that flew in to assess the effects of the earthquake in July. Audio

• The 1855 Wairarapa Earthquake (Science)

  22 Sep 2005

  Veronika Meduna joins a geology field party to travel along the Wairarapa fault line 150 years after the 1855 earthquake. Audio