The 2019 volcanic explosion on Whakaari/White Island, which killed 22 people touring the crater and severely injured 25, is ...

Earthquakes Earthquakes occur due to the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in seismic waves that cause the ground to shake. This movement can lead to the collapse of buildings, ...

A new international collaboration is surveying ancient landslide sites in two deep undersea canyons to better understand New ...

Tsunami Preparedness Week falls on March 22 and local experts advise those who live near coastal areas to take training ...

By surveying, mapping and sampling two different areas off the Wairarapa and Canterbury coasts which have previously experienced huge landslides, they hope to better understand the hazard and risk ...

Sandanbata says tsunami waves can also be caused by activities such as explosive ... on the seabed triggered by magma activity and seabed landslides. He says many undersea volcanoes are located ...

If a major earthquake or landslide occurs close to shore ... Drowning is the most common cause of death associated with a tsunami. Tsunami waves and the receding water are very destructive ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...