To inform Scott Base development planning, we discuss the effects of historical earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanism on Antarctica and then focus on assessing the potential hazard from future tsunamis in the Ross Sea region. ...

Lower Hutt building stock dates back to early nineteenth century, with the majority of older buildings concentrated in central business district and around historic precincts in Jackson Street. Inevitably, buildings built ...

Geological investigations over the last two decades have demonstrated that major strike-slip faults in central New Zealand (e.g., Awatere, Clarence, Wellington faults) have experienced significant millennial-scale variations ...

Current practices have commonly used tsunami flow depth as the sole hazard Intensity Measure (IM) in fragility functions underpinning tsunami damage, loss and risk assessments. Tsunami flow depth is often obtained from ...

Are the regulatory settings for structural and geotechnical design of structures in New Zealand currently appropriate? It is contended that they are not. New Zealand led the world in performance based building regulation ...

This paper presents a structural health monitoring (SHM) system based on wireless smart sensor network for real-time condition assessment of civil infrastructures. The system consists of a new wireless smart sensor network ...