All News from Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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Canterbury escapes the Haiti experience
The similarities, and differences, between two earthquakes involving strike-slip faults Read more…
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Christchurch may have had multiple impacts in big quake
Comments from the US Geological Survey, Hamish Campbell (GNS) Euan Smith (VUW) and visiting US geoscientist, Professor Kevin Furlong Read more…
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Quake factbox
Christchurch last had 7.1 quakes in March 1929 (Arthur's Pass), and September 1888 (North Canterbury) - GNS Science Read more…
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French science vessel to start second leg
The French yacht Tara, previously owned by Sir Peter Blake, leaves Cape Town on Sunday for New Zealand on the second leg of a three-year voyage to chart the effects of climate change on plankton ecosystems in the world's oceans Read more…
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Canterbury quake may have been on “new” fault line
GNS Science seismologist, John Ristau comments on today's 7.1 magnitude quake 40km west of Christchurch city Read more…
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Amazon may be headed for another bad drought
At its lowest level in 40 years - meterologists Read more…
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Christchurch riddled with quake fault zones
Canterbury University geologists have found there are about 100 fault lines and fault segments around the region, rather than the half-dozen active faults that were known about 20 years ago Read more…
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NZ research warns on use of one type of asthma inhaler
Wellington asthma researchers comment on the single use of long-acting beta agonists (LABA) in the latest issue of the The Lancet medical journal Read more…
