Large M7.7 Loyalty Islands quake triggers small tsunami
A large shallow magnitude 7.7 occurred in the Loyalty Islands at 2:57pm NZT on Friday afternoon which triggered small tsunami waves...
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- May 11
- 1 min
Lightning strikes Auckland's Sky tower
Last night's Auckland thunderstorm produced a direct hit on the Sky tower caught on our live webcam. A negative charged downward streamer...
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- Apr 25
- 1 min
Geomagnetic storm, Auroras, and a large M7.1 earthquake
It was a very active 24 hours for space weather and seismic activity yesterday as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm bombarded earth’s...
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- Mar 26
- 1 min
Severe G4 geomagnetic storm impacts upper North
A severe level G4 Geomagnetic storm arrived into earth's magnetosphere on Friday evening NZT, triggering the Aurora Australis over the...
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- Feb 17
- 3 min
Cyclone Gabrielle
Cyclone Gabrielle will go down as one of the most devastating weather events in New Zealand's modern history which affected many parts of...
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- Feb 4
- 3 min
The Great Marangai of 2023
The term 'Marangai' means east wind, also meaning a storm, or bad weather. However, in some districts, Marangai means the north wind. It...
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- Jan 15
- 1 min
1 year on from the Tonga eruption - global temperature check.
It’s 12 months today since the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai major volcanic eruption that sent atmospheric shock waves and tsunamis across...
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- Jan 14
- 1 min
Seismic activity in the last 7 days for the upper North Island
Here is a weekly summary for seismic activity under the upper North Island as detected by GeoNet. There have been 20 small earthquakes in...
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- Jan 12
- 2 min
Cyclone Hale: 9-11th January 2023
After starting as a tropical depression (93P) on January 4th in Far North Queensland, late on 8th January a tropical storm 07P over the...
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- Jan 4
- 1 min
Largest quake in nearly 100 years rocks upper North
A strong shallow magnitude 5.1 has rattled the upper and central North Island this morning at 5:39am and was felt by 20,000+. Located 5...
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- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
2022 comes to a close
It is time to say good-bye to 2022. We will finish the year with a partly cloudy day in the mid 20’s with maybe some isolated showers and...
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- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Coromandel earthquake swarm re-awakens
Dual earthquakes today have re-awakened the earthquake swarm just off Whitianga. The first was a M2.5 at 6:20am and then a 2nd larger...
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- Nov 30, 2022
- 1 min
More storms and inversion thunder rattles the North
A strong squall line on a frontal boundary motored across the Upper North Island on the last day of November which finished out a very...
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- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Seismic unrest within the Kermadec Arc
An intriguing series of shallow earthquakes in the last week including two M5.1 yesterday, 730km NE of the Hauraki Gulf. They are in the...
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- Nov 23, 2022
- 1 min
Stormy November continues
Another parade of thunderstorms moved across the upper North Island as the unusually stormy November continues. One particular...
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- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
Waterspout lands in the Gulf off the North Shore
A Tasman low delivered waves of thunderstorm cells into the upper North Island over the weekend with one cell's cloud rotating enough to...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
Fireball disintegrates over upper North
A great capture this morning at 4:24am of a meteor burning up through atmosphere over Auckland’s north-west. It was heard booming through...
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- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
Subtropical low impacts the upper North
A vigorous east to south-easterly developed during the evening of 10th November associated with a subtropical low in Tasman. During the...
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- Nov 10, 2022
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Series of deep earthquakes to the North
There were multiple large deep earths 1100km to the North of NZ on late Wednesday night. The first was a foreshock M6.8 10:38pm NZT which...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Small M2.6 shallow earthquake reawakens fault near Great Barrier Island
After 3 initial earthquakes in October 2021 the Cradock Channel fault line has re-awoken this morning with a small M2.6 at 6:46am 5km...
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