A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,650 people in Myanmar and Thailand, leaving the region reeling as rescuers pick through vast piles of rubble to find missing people.

New Zealand officials have raised the alert code for the offshore volcano Whakaari/White Island, which is emitting large ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

The council has requested an engineer's report on the chimney.

The long-delayed plan was released on Wednesday, five years after the first national stocktake of health facilities found ...

There is a 10% chance of Auckland suffering a volcanic eruption in the next 50 years and it could cost as much as $65 billion in building damage alone. The disaster scenario is one of several listed ...

Two earthquakes hit the area between Fiji and New Zealand on April 14 morning. The first quake measured 6.5, and the second ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain Region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.