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Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018.
In the South Island, the largest seismic hazard is the 600km Alpine Fault, which runs the length of the Southern Alps and defines the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates.
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What happens when research rolls into the kitchen? These PhD students will tell you that you can have your cake and eat it too.
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A team of international scientists, including two researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), will soon sail to the Japan Trench to discover more about what causes tsunamis.
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ANU seismologists Dr Thanh-Son Phạm and Jinyin Hu say monitoring the release of gases from volcanic sites can help better prepare for future events. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor David Green on 6 September 2024.
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A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.
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More than 100 years on from Queensland's largest earthquake, researchers are re-writing history having discovered the epicentre was more than 250 kilometres away from where they thought it was.
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A newly published study in the international Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research offers an alternative mechanism that triggered the 15 January 2022 Hunga (Tonga) eruption, proposing the powerful eruption was caused by a gas-driven climactic explosion rather than a phreatomagmatic one - where magma and water react violently through the water column.