I went to New Zealand on a long-planned vacation to see the setting for “The Lord of the Rings” movies and the mountain scenery. But as the earthquake reporter for the Los Angeles Times ...

A strong earthquake shook the lower part of New Zealand’s North Island on Monday, rattling buildings and knocking out power for thousands of people. It also caused a giant, hanging sculpture of ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --A strong earthquake shook northern New Zealand on Wednesday night, with tens of thousands of people on both of its main islands reporting having felt the natural phenomenon.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near the New Zealand capital Wellington on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, as the nation grapples with widespread landslides and flooding across a ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The New Zealand earthquake, which struck the country's second-largest metro area shortly before 1 p.m. local time Tuesday, highlights the hazards of ...

Search teams used their bare hands, dogs, heavy cranes and earth movers Wednesday to pull 120 survivors from the rubble of a powerful earthquake in one of New Zealand's largest cities. Officials ...

After being rocked by a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake, a wave of powerful aftershocks, thousands are now stranded in a New Zealand town near the quake’s epicenter. A local state of emergency ...

To the editor: Visiting Christchurch, New Zealand, last fall was indeed a ... The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was actually an aftershock of the larger but more distant September 2010 ...

File: Surfers catching a wave after a series of large earthquakes hit New Zealand, sparking a tsunami advisory notice (AFP via Getty Images) It said remote parts of Fiordland's coast were the most ...

Taiwan lies along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire,' a line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand ...