Darfield quake launches a decade of innovation in science and engineeringThursday, September 3, 2020Read...
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3 Sep 2020
The decade since the Darfield earthquake on 4 September, 2010, has seen many major advances in earthquake...
Sir Michael CullenFriday, August 20, 2021We are deeply saddened by the news that our...
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20 Aug 2021
We are deeply saddened by the news that our former EQC Chair Sir Michael Cullen has...
Reduced hours – Christmas & New Year holidayMonday, November 30, 2020We close for the...
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30 Nov 2020
We close for the holiday period on Thursday 24 December at 4pm. We return to normal hours from 7am...
Friday, November 12, 2021How the Kaikōura earthquake changed our view of seismic hazardsKaikōura was...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
Kaikōura was a complex earthquake with multiple faults rupturing in sequence to create a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. We were able...
EQC sets two-year research funding directionFriday, May 7, 2021The ‘RIPS’ will give a good...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
EQC funds around $20 million of research and data each year, with around $14 million of that going to GeoNet. The...
New research to help businesses increase seismic safetyMonday, September 7, 2020Results from the research...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
New research aims to reduce injuries in future earthquakes by collating and sharing what New Zealand companies have done to...
Chief Executive Sid Miller announces his departure from EQCThursday, September 2, 2021Earthquake Commission Chief...
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Earthquake Commission Chief Executive officer Sid Miller has announced he will leave his role in March 2022.
EQC chairperson Mary-Jane Daly...
EQC receives nearly 6,000 applications for On-solds support packageTuesday, December 8, 2020The $300 million...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
The Earthquake Commission (EQC) received nearly 6,000 applications from Canterbury homeowners for the Government’s On-solds support package, with more than half...
Thursday, November 18, 2021Congratulating our Chief Executive for win at NZ Insurance Industry Awards!
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
We’d like to congratulate our Chief Executive Sid Miller, who has been jointly awarded Insurance Leader of the Year in the...
New research findings to help businesses increase seismic resilienceWednesday, May 26, 2021Larger businesses are...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
New research has revealed that many New Zealand businesses are left in the dark around how to make their workplaces...
Marlborough gravelly soil could provide a new understanding of liquefactionMonday, September 7, 2020The project...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
Scientists today started drilling deep into the fertile Marlborough land to gain new understanding of liquefaction in gravelly soils, and...
EQC’s 2021 science journalism award asks for insight on natural hazardsMonday, December 14, 2020The...
Source: Earthquake Commission – EQC
Applications are now open for the Earthquake Commission (EQC) Aotearoa New Zealand Science Journalism Fund award giving journalists a chance...
