One expert says the government's changes on earthquake-prone buildings are more about saving money than lives - but there's ...

A new "risk-based" approach to earthquake strengthening will allegedly save building owners more than $8.2 billion across the ...

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Cascadia and San Andreas link raises spectre of simultaneous disasters, findings that could undermine insurance models and ...

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Episode 12 of the m25 Global Creative Series takes us to New Zealand. This series features conversations with exceptional ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the central Philippines late on Tuesday night, killing 72 people and injuring hundreds, according to local authorities. Here is more about what happened and why the ...

Refocusing the earthquake-prone building rules is a welcome sign that the Government is willing to tackle inconsistencies in the current system, says the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors ...