Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith has announced sweeping changes to the Building Act amid predictions in Wellington around earthquake risk.

Access information and maps relating to Tsunami Zones in the Auckland Region .

Click on the areas of the map to find further detailed information and road map showing the specific tsunami zones for the area.

You can access information and maps relating to Tsunami Zones in the Wellington area in the “It’s Easy – Know your tsunami zones” booklet which you can access from the following link:

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Google Person Finder is an open sourceweb application that provides a registry and message board for survivors, family, and loved ones affected by a natural disaster to post and search for information about each other’s status and whereabouts.

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Information for Devereux-Blum employees during major emergencies.

This is where we’ll keep Devereux-Blum employees informed during serious emergency situations, like fire, earthquake, tsunami, massive power failure, snow storms or floods that prevent people from reporting to work as usual.

During a major emergency ... 

This research article on the impacts on organisations and the economy following the February Christchurch Earthquake has useful information and relevance for people regarding issues still being reflected upon in 2012. Click on the link to read the ... 

Reading and considering the learnings from Sharyn’s article which poses the question ‘What if…? Planning for the worst case scenario’ will help you to think about the types of ... 

Global Reach Associates, as well as providing facititation support for the Earthquake + Natural Hazards NZ business cluster, provide specialist services to individual businesses and project task groups to assist them rapidly develop ... 

United Future leader Peter Dunne has made public Wellington City Council’s list of 808 earthquake prone buildings.The assessments of how quake-safe ... 

One of the ways to reduce the impact of an earthquake is to restrain heavy items. Often when we conduct Emergency Preparedness Audits ... 

The 7.1 magnitude Canterbury Earthquake on 4 September 2010 created many opportunities for us as the significance of preparing for emergencies was reinforced by mother nature. In recent days we have watched the tragedy unfold in Reefton as the Incident Management Team faced enormous pressures to mount a rescue attempt whilst the experts told them that the environment was too dangerous.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those people affected in both events.

Devereux-Blum is committed to keeping you informed, with regular news releases on topical issues – archived away here for your reference, a range of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to the services we provide and videos that may be of ...