Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to ...

For the first time ever, a direct commercial air service will connect Christchurch and Adelaide, with Air New Zealand today announcing a new twice-weekly route launching this summer. The service marks ...

The Alpine Fault runs along the country's South ... In 2011, her children Steven and Laura were at boarding school in Christchurch when a major earthquake ripped the city apart and 185 people ...

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This area is still prone to earthquakes, most notably along the Alpine fault. Further away from these fault zones the ground is generally more quiescent. Christchurch is over 100 kilometres from ...

In an Alpine Fault earthquake ... more seismic energy was focused towards the capital city than, for example, Christchurch. So, while rupture direction has been observed to make a big difference ...

The commercial hub of the South Island sits to the east of the Alpine fault that snakes beneath the Southern Alps. But the tremor that left much of central Christchurch in ruins came from a ...

It fell off the face of Tasman Glacier, in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, on Tuesday afternoon, soon after the earthquake struck Christchurch. The general manager of the Aoraki Mt Cook Alpine ...