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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, […]
March 23, 2022

Want to see the Alpine fault upclose and never like seen before?

Julian Thomson went to the place to see the Alpine Fault in New Zealand: Gaunt Creek https://youtu.be/rJS2ZQFqRug Julian has even spotted slickensides! These striations are created during an earthquake in […]
March 9, 2022

“Saving precious seconds”

“Saving Precious Seconds”—A Novel Approach to Implementing a Low-Cost Earthquake Early Warning System with Node-Level Detection and Alert Generation Great collaboration output with CRISiSLab team ! Our open-access on Earthquake […]
February 22, 2022

Ground shaking propagating through selected 288 GeoNet stations from M5.6 NZ quake

Ground shaking propagating through selected 288 GeoNet stations from M5.6 NZ quake (https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2022p138188). Took about 20 sec to reach Wellington and 2 mn to leave NZ main 2 islands (max […]