The Alpine Fault ruptures—on average—every 330 years with a magnitude 8 earthquake. Geologists and authorities are racing to quantify what might happen, and how they might respond in the event of the next one, likely to occur some time in the next 50 years.


	The big one At 3.24am last Sunday morning, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Fiordland near Big Bay, reinvigorating calls to prepare for a quake along the Alpine Fault. The Alpine Fault ruptures—on average—every 330 years with a magnitude 8 earthquake. Geologists and authorities are racing to quantify what might happen, and how they might respond in the event of the next one, likely to occur some time in the next 50 years.

The night Tarawera awoke

When Mt Tarawera erupted in the early hours of June 10, 1886, it annihilated the world-famous Pink and White Terraces and smothered a vast swathe of countryside.

Good grief

What we can learn from albatrosses.

1080

A five-year jail sentence was recently handed down to a man who had seriously threatened DOC workers over 1080 use. What is it about 1080 that leads to such heated protests?


	Visit the godwits from your armchair... New Zealand Geographic's NZVR Project lets you travel through New Zealand's wild places using virtual reality on any phone, tablet or desktop computer. Glide with stingrays at the Poor Knights, swim through swaying sargassum weed at the Three Kings, dive with pilot whales off the edge of the continental shelf, explore the shallows of Parengarenga Harbour, experience the charms and challenges of the Hauraki Gulf... even swim with humpback whales in Niue! Production was funded by Foundation North's Gulf Innovation Fund Together (GIFT), NZonAir and supported by partners WWF and Sir Peter Blake Trust.