CANBERRA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- New research led by Australian scientists shows small earthquakes in New Zealand's central Southern Alps are more frequent in spring and summer due to underground ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — One of the biggest earthquakes to hit the South Pacific in modern history forced thousands of people in New Zealand to evacuate and triggered tsunami warnings across ...

Two moderate quakes have struck the world in the past few hours; while one hit Assam's Dhubri, another was reported in New Zealand's North Island ...

Slow-slip events or silent earthquakes occur regularly in New Zealand. A newly discovered water-filled reservoir may explain what causes them.

Large earthquakes along some of New Zealand's major faults are commonly clustered in time and place, according to recent ...

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed two people and caused massive infrastructure damage in New Zealand on Monday. Here are some facts about the seismically active nation known as the Shaky ...

Heart attacks spiked in Christchurch, New Zealand in the areas struck hardest by a set of 2010 and 2011 earthquakes during the year after the tremblers, a new study shows.