GeoNet has revealed why they deleted a magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the east coast of New Zealand. The quake struck 940km northeast of Whangārei at a depth of 213km at 7:41pm on Saturday. GeoNet said ...

Twenty years ago, New Zealand’s natural hazards monitoring was catapulted from weeks-long waits for earthquake information to near instant data streams via GeoNet that now sit underneath nearly all ...

EQC’s ongoing investment in natural hazard science including the world-leading GeoNet platform provides confidence to international reinsurance markets to continue providing cover for New Zealand , ...

GeoNet will get initial funding of up to $3 million to improve how it monitors and responds to natural hazards such as earthquakes. The funding boost comes after scrutiny of the official response to ...

The North Canterbury earthquake was followed by horrendous weather causing widespread flooding in parts of central New Zealand The director of GeoNet has detailed responding to the "monster" magnitude ...

WELLINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, government seismic monitor GeoNet said on Sunday, but initial reports indicated there ...

Two large North Island earthquakes reported by GeoNet this morning didn't occur, the agency said. At 9.39am GeoNet reported a magnitude 5.6 striking west of Auckland. Half an hour later it erroneously ...

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake north-west off the coast of Paraparaumu has broken a GeoNet record for the most "felt reports" the agency has ever received for an earthquake. The shake occurred yesterday ...

A self-proclaimed earthquake forecaster is warning a large earthquake is about to hit - however Kiwi scientists dismiss his claims as based on shaky science. It's a battle of the earthquake predictors ...

GNS Science's battle-hardened GeoNet unit has been recognised at the 2012 Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards. Since the two major Christchurch earthquakes, GeoNet has added both crowdsourced ...

The quake hit at 5:08 a.m. on Sunday (1608 GMT on Saturday) striking 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) west of Wellington at a focal depth of 30 km (19 miles). GeoNet said more than 37,000 people had ...