HazardWatch: Home

Welcome to the new HazardWatch site.

Follow the links on the left for up-to-date hazards information, or look at the links below to find more detailed information on geological hazards in New Zealand.

• The GNS Science website
• GeoNet
• EQC-IQ (being prepared for natural disasters)
• Ministry of Civil Defence (how to get ready)
• Naturalhazards.net.nz
• Climate Change (NIWA)
• Property Insight (Hazards Information for your property)

Seismic links from the GeoNet and GNS Science sites

• Did you feel an earthquake? View the page of Recent Quakes to see if the event is listed there; if so, click on the felt it? button and make your report.
• See the latest quake
• See the last thirty quakes recorded in NZ
• Query our quake database
• Make your own quake map >>>
• Look at our network of seismographs that record quakes in real-time across the country
• Earthquake links from GNS Science
• Subscribe to our earthquake alerts emails

 

Volcano links

• Look at our volcano cameras
• Look at the last 24 hours of shots from our volcano cameras
  (click on the tabs with the names of the volcanoes on them).
  
• Lahar stories from GNS Science
• Volcano links from GNS Science