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Figure illustrating how earthquake-induced infrasonic acoustic waves are generated at solid-air or water-air interfaces.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Earthquake Rupture Solution is Up in the Air

by T. Parsons 28 May 202119 October 2021

Perhaps the most complex earthquake rupture ever studied is further constrained by signals from Earth’s ionosphere.

A yellow DART buoy being lowered overboard
Posted inNews

Ocean Sensors Record Rare Triple Tsunami near New Zealand

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 29 April 202116 March 2022

A new suite of DART buoys in the South Pacific Ocean spotted waves set in motion by three tsunamigenic earthquakes that occurred within hours of one another.

Figures showing modeling of fault related anisotropy
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Fault Related Anisotropy in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

by A. Becel 13 January 20218 July 2024

A new study provides the first high-resolution three-dimensional anisotropic P-wave velocity model of the shallow part of the Northern Hikurangi subduction zone offshore New Zealand.

Tourists take photos of black clouds during the eruption at Whakaari/White Island in 2019.
Posted inNews

Can Volcano Forecasting Make Visiting Whakaari Safe Again?

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 10 December 202028 October 2021

Last year’s explosive eruption at the New Zealand volcano tragically took tourists by surprise.

Aerial image of the braided channels of the Waimakariri River
Posted inFeatures

The River’s Lizard Tail: Braiding Indigenous Knowledges with Geomorphology

by Kate Evans 14 September 20208 October 2021

Indigenous Knowledges can be accurate, rigorous, and precise, say researchers in New Zealand, and they can help geomorphologists see landscapes in a new, richer way.

Wide image of a group of researchers looking through slabs of rock in a ditch in a dry paddock
Posted inNews

Ancient “Pickled” Leaves Give a Glimpse of Global Greening

by Kate Evans 3 September 202026 January 2023

A unique fossil lake bed in New Zealand has revealed insights into global climate under elevated levels of carbon dioxide but is now off-limits to scientists.

In September 2009, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the Tonga Trench inundated towns in American Samoa.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensor Network Warns of Stealth Tsunamis

by B. Fry, S.-J. McCurrach, K. Gledhill, W. Power, M. Williams, M. Angove, D. Arcas and C. Moore 26 May 20206 June 2022

A next-generation network of seismic and wave sensors in the southwestern Pacific will warn coastal residents of an approaching tsunami before they see the wave.

Drillers in hardhats work on the rig floor of a research vessel.
Posted inNews

Getting to the Bottom of Slow-Motion Earthquakes

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 24 April 20202 December 2022

For close to 20 years, slow-motion earthquakes have been an enigma. Core samples provide new clues to their origins.

This aerial view shows Lake Taupō amid the whenua (land) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa on the North Island of New Zealand.
Posted inScience Updates

Implications of a Supervolcano’s Seismicity

by F. Illsley-Kemp, S. J. Barker, B. Smith and C. J. N. Wilson 5 March 202029 September 2021

Last year’s rumblings beneath New Zealand’s Taupō supervolcano, the site of Earth’s most recent supereruption, lend new urgency to research and outreach efforts in the region.

A synthetic seep generator for calibrating gas bubble echo sounding data is deployed into New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty.
Posted inScience Updates

Gas Bubble Forensics Team Surveils the New Zealand Ocean

by G. Lamarche, Y. Le Gonidec, V. Lucieer, Y. Ladroit, T. Weber, A. Gaillot, E. Heffron, S. Watson and A. Pallentin 26 September 201929 March 2023

An international research group recorded the acoustic signatures of gas bubbles rising from a hydrothermal vent field to gather clues about greenhouse gases escaping into the atmosphere.

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