Hazards

A unique pilot project to help Samoa’s largest village better cope with natural disaster is the focus of an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Samoa timed to coincide with a major United Nations conference in Apia.

New Zealand will get hotter, have more heavy rainfalls, and experience more days when the fire risk is extreme, the latest international report on climate change impacts reveals.

Surveying work carried out by NIWA scientists this week is helping provide new insights into the tsunami risk from undersea landslides in the Kaikoura Canyon.

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

NIWA's work seeks to improve our understanding of the key dynamic and physical processes which are responsible for heavy rainfall , and to improve the heavy rainfall forecast.

New Zealand faces a variety of hazards associated with snow.