Natural Hazards Update archive

No.9 October 2004

  • Flood forecasting trialled
  • Safe ports: swell monitoring
  • New Zealand technology for English beaches
  • Undersea fault's secrets revealed
  • Aerial laser scanning: a tool for hazard mapping

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    No.8 2004

  • Are the recent Wellington earthquakes related to ground deformation on the Kapiti coast?
  • Natural hazards in autumn 2004
  • Tsunami near Gisborne
  • On the lookout for magma
  • Understanding earthquake shaking potential in Whakatane
  • After the February floods: what about next time?
  • Coastal hazards guidance manual
  • Tsunami warnings workshop

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    No.7 2004

  • Stormy story
  • Helping communities cope
  • Natural hazards in summer 2003-04
  • Southland floods
  • The February without a summer
  • Preliminary conclusions on landsliding in the Manawatu–Wanganui area
  • Keynote speaker confirmed – Professor Dennis Mileti
  • Manukau City Council – leading the way in hazard guidelines

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    No.6 2004

  • The economics of resilience
  • The vulnerability of water supplies to volcanic ash
  • Natural hazards in winter 2003
  • Awatere earthquake
  • Landslides, gully erosion, and debris floods
  • Recommendations from the International Workshop “Tsunamis in the South Pacific”, Wellington, September 2003

    • No.5 2003

  • Future hazards research plans
  • Insurance risk and climate change
  • Natural hazards in winter 2003
  • Tsunami hits the Chathams
  • Large earthquake strikes Fiordland
  • Land use planning on or close to active faults – guidelines for planners
  • Coasts and Ports Australasian Conference 2003

    • No.4 2003

  • Auckland councils tackle hazards
  • Seismic hazard model for New Zealand
  • Natural hazards in autumn 2003
  • Wahine Disaster
  • Storms
  • Post-earthquake functioning of cities
  • Cost of the June 2002 ‘weather bomb’
  • Pacific Tsunami Workshop

    • No.3 2003

  • Lifelines - how prepared are we?
  • Aerial laser scanning of coastal and river hazards
  • Natural hazards in summer 2003
  • Tangiwai disaster
  • Earthquake risk
  • Long waves and ships
  • Guidance note on climate-change effects on coastal hazards
  • GPS deployments with LINZ
  • Using radar to measure deformation

    • No.2 2003

  • Working together for resilient communities
  • Mt. Adams landslide
  • Natural hazards in spring 2002
  • Volcanic fury vented in 1995
  • Inundation
  • Flood awareness in Waikanae
  • Communicating information on natural hazards
  • Forecasting coastal flooding
  • Volcano course to include other hazards

    • No.1 2002

  • New Natural Hazards Centre
  • Public response to emergency warnings: lessons from the 1960 Chile earthquake tsunami
  • Natural hazards in winter 2002 (June–August)
  • The BIG snow that hit Canterbury in 1945
  • Tsunami
  • 5th Natural Hazards Management Conference, Wellington (14–15 Aug 2002)
  • Coastal & Storm Hazards Workshop, Hamilton (25–26 March 2002)
  • Massive flood damage near Gisborne
  • GeoNet
  • Development rides on 3-year tsunami study