Earthquake Resources

A collection of earthquake-related data resources and tools.

Etna strong-motion accelerograph at Invercargill City Council offices.

Note: All the links below will take you to pages and applications within the main resources section of the GeoNet website.

Earthquake hypocentres

• Quake Search: this allows the user to extract a file of earthquake hypocentre locations from the New Zealand region in CSV or IMS1.0 format, or to plot them as a JPG image seismicity map. The search may be qualified by date, geographic location, focal depth, magnitude and/or solution quality.

Earthquake maps

• Deep Seismicity: view the recent deep earthquakes from your region.
• Shallow Seismicity: view the recent shallow earthquakes from your region.

Basic data

• Seismic Data: retrieve basic seismic data using AutoDRM.
• Strong-Motion Data: retrieve basic strong-motion data using FTP.