Last night’s strong and shallow 5.3 quake was felt by more than 23,000 people: mostly across the lower North Island. A seismologist says it wouldn’t have registered too much t ...

Areas planned to be mapped this summer included coastlines in Gisborne, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Oamaru, Timaru, Dunedin, Southland, and Westland.

A new project is getting underway to map large parts of New Zealand's ... near the coast are exposed to climate events and natural hazards like tsunami, and these will impact valuable ...

Tina Mitchell is the chief executive of the Natural Hazards Commission, Toka Tū Ake. Watching the devastation unfold in Los Angeles has been heartbreaking. The catastrophic wildfires have not ...

Wildfire smoke from the Palisades and Eaton fires blankets Los Angeles County. Four wildfires released towering plumes of smoke and soot, some of them seen from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area ...

And, despite the maps becoming Californians’ go-to source for hazard information, Cal Fire stresses its directive from lawmakers was to determine where officials need to enforce often costly ...

Languages: English. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau has revealed which states have the largest populations that are vulnerable to natural disasters. When mapped by Newsweek, the data shows that ...

The global drought community and policy representatives gathered at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s 16th Conference of the Parties (UNCCD COP16) in Riyadh in December ...

One lesson from the damage caused by the destructive typhoon that hit Japan in October last year is the need to improve hazard maps that visualize projected data for natural hazards. Hazard maps ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds SSE at 14 to 16 mph (22.5 to 25.7 kph). The overnight low will be 62 °F (16.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 69 °F (20.6 °C). Winds SSE at 12 to 14 mph (19.3 to 22.5 kph ...