Hazards

The Ocean Survey 20/20 (OS 20/20) programme aims to provide NZ with better knowledge of its ocean territory.

These latest infra-red satellite images of ash clouds over New Zealand were created using the NOAA 18 and 19 satellites. 

In September 2010 and February 2011, two devastating earthquakes (M7.1 and M6.3 respectively) hit the Canterbury region

New Zealand faces a variety of hazards associated with snow.

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NIWA is working on a ministry-funded project to produce a model, validated by 40 years of historic data, to project future wave and storm surges off the coast for two climate change scenarios.