Toka Tū Ake EQC launches Natural Hazards Portal
29 August 2023
The Natural Hazards Portal launched by Toka Tū Ake EQC launched a website that makes it easier for New Zealanders to find information on natural hazard risks in their communities. This includes being able to see settled EQCover claims on residential properties and land throughout Aotearoa New Zealand in one place for the first time.
The Toka Tū Ake EQC indicates that the Portal provides easy access to:
- local and national-level hazard risk information that is available from multiple government agencies, for example, Council hazard maps
- information about natural hazards insurance, and
- a map which allows people to search for settled EQCover claims from 1997 onwards, on residential properties and land nationwide.
“The EQCover claims information includes the property address, the natural hazard event date, event type, and the claim type (land or building) of settled EQCover claims from 1997 to present. People can request more detail from Toka Tū Ake EQC under the Official Information Act, as they do now. Claims which are still open and being assessed are not included on the map”.
Please refer below for further details and link to the Natural Hazards Portal:
https://www.eqc.govt.nz/news/toka-tu-ake-eqc-launches-natural-hazards-portal/
https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz/s/
Zealandia just became the first continent to be completely mapped
9 October 2023
Zealandia, while the last continent to be discovered, has became the first ever continent to have its geology, volcanoes and sedimentary basins fully mapped out to its underwater edges. This is based on the latest work from GNS scientists and building on previous groundbreaking study by GNS in 2017 and 2019.
Further details including discovery of a “giant volcanic region” can be found below:
https://www.gns.cri.nz/news/zealandia-just-became-the-first-ever-continent-to-be-completely-mapped/
