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• February 24, 2023

  Earthquakes and seismic hazard in southern New Caledonia

  Grateful to have accompanied Shao and Rupert to New Caledonia. They have authored a recent paper on earthquakes in Southern New Caledonia. Using a network of temporary seismic stations, they […]

• October 31, 2022

  A quake and a warning at the “2022 Taiwan-Japan-NZ Seismic Hazard workshop”

  What better welcome to the “2022 Taiwan-Japan-NZ Seismic Hazard workshop” and meeting with the Taiwan Earthquake Early Warning group than a Magnitude 5 earthquake followed by a warning alert on […]

• October 31, 2022

  Spring SALSA (field work)

  Working in beautiful Te Tai Poutini/West coast 🏔 with VUW colleagues in October week servicing our SALSA seismometer network along the Alpine fault. 50+ sites done in 10 days! Updates/photos Facebook.com/SALSAeqnz

• October 2, 2022

  Tauranga STEM Fest 2022 !

  Kids got to make their own earthquake seismograms today as part of the Tauranga STEM festival ! The festival was HUGE ! https://www.taurangastemfestival.co.nz/

• September 19, 2022

  2022 CrisisLab Challenge !

  Thrilled to have been invited again as a judge for the inspiring CRISiSLab Challenge competition for High School students about designing an Earthquake Early Warning System! “This competition is organised […]

• August 10, 2022

  “The clear and present danger of a devastating tsunami in Wellington” (by Charlie Mitchell)

  Great news-piece on tsunami hazard and research for the Wellington region (stuff.co.nz)

• July 12, 2022

  Lound bang July 7th from a space object entering the atmosphere over Wellington

  Lound bang July 7th from a space object entering the atmosphere over Wellington was recorded on many Geonet seismometers including my wee RaspberryShake! Rumble last for over a minute but […]

• June 20, 2022

  The warning you might get before the next big quake – The Detail Podcast on RNZ

• June 9, 2022

  Live panel on eq, volcano & tsunami hazard tonight ! (09/10/22 NZ time)

• May 23, 2022

  New paper on “Episodic movement of a submarine landslide complex driven by dynamic loading during earthquakes”

  J.M. Carey, J.J. Mountjoy, G.J. Crutchley, D.N. Petley, C.F. Holden, Y. Kaneko, K. Huhn. Episodic movement of a submarine landslide complex driven by dynamic loading during earthquakes,Geomorphology, Volume 408, 2022, […]