The latest reports state that 154 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the earthquake with financial claims from the disaster set to be between $2.75 billion (£1.25 billion) and $3.5 billion ...

Learning from experience, including that of other countries, is an important element of our knowledge about earthquakes and other disasters that affect major urban areas. The United States can learn ...

For some bereaved families, justice remains elusive 15 years after the quake. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The 20,000-capacity venue, which was built for the 1974 Commonwealth Games and now hosts track and field, swimming and diving events, is awaiting assessment by structural engineers before any decision ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - New Zealand on Monday marked 10 years since an earthquake struck its South Island city of Christchurch, killing 185 people, injuring thousands and leaving a trail of ...

While large parts of New Zealand are reeling from the flooding caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which killed 11 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, February 22 marked the twelfth ...

Soil liquefaction was a major feature of the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake that killed 185 people. Researchers developed a machine learning model to predict the amount of lateral movement ...

Over the last 10 years since the most destructive of Canterbury’s earthquakes, former Senior Structural Engineer with HERA (Heavy Engineering Research Association) Charles Clifton has analysed why ...

Christ Church Cathedral in December 2012 about a year after the back-to-back earthquakes. A couple of train box cars can be seen on the far right. They were used throughout Christchurch to help shore ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, September 3, 2010 (ENS) – A severe earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook the South Island for at least three minutes early Saturday morning, at 4:35 am local time. The quake was ...

Perhaps in the eyes of some, Matt Gerstenberger has a stressful job. He is the man leading a team of seismologists as they create computer models of previous Richter Scale 7 and 8 earthquake events in ...

Christchurch resident Martin Howman was not shy about detonating 900 pounds of gelignite explosives under the homes of his former neighbors. For a long time he was one of the few people still living ...