Subscriptions
Subscribe to mailing lists, our news and alert feeds as well as participating with us in social media.
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RSS feeds
Many browsers provide feed reading capabilities e.g., live bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox. If you prefer a desktop feed reader there are many available. We use Liferea and RSSOwl. Liferea is particularly nice as it will render spatial elements in feeds as interactive maps.
If you choose to use the RSS feeds programmatically then bear in mind there are nine incompatible RSS formats and the feeds provide no guarantee about the specification they contain - this is usually handled by the client interpreting the name space in the feed. A good option is to be able convert them to another format to help make tracking changes simpler. The Rome project provides tools for doing this and a good explanation of the complexity of RSS.
Note that we cannot provide support for Liferea, RSSOwl, Rome or any other feed readers; please use the forums of the reader you choose for any support questions.
The following RSS feeds are available. They are updated every time there is new content for them. This can vary from daily to yearly!
- Latest Quakes: subscribe to receive details of the 3 most recent earthquakes via RSS.
- Recent Quakes: subscribe to receive details of the 30 most recent earthquakes via RSS.
- Volcanic Alert Levels: subscribe to receive New Zealand Volcanic Alert Levels via RSS.
- Aviation Colour Codes: subscribe to receive New Zealand Aviation Colour Codes via RSS.
- Volcanic Alert Bulletins: subscribe to receive Volcanic Alert Bulletins via RSS.
- News: subscribe to receive a combined list with both GeoNet news articles and Volcanic Alert Bulletins via RSS.
Twitter is a free to use "micro blogging" service available over the web via your computer and your mobile phone. It allows people, or in GeoNet's case, systems, to post short messages, known as "tweets", to a particular location on the web where millions of people around the world already "tweet" and "follow" the tweets of their friends, colleagues and anything else they’re interested in. Read more about Twitter on Wikipedia.
- Follow all of GeoNet on Twitter ( @geonet)
- Restrict earthquakes to magnitudes 4.1 and above ( @geonet_above4)
- Restrict earthquakes to magnitudes 5.1 and above ( @geonet_above5)
Hazard alerts
- Geological Hazard Alert Service: details of GNS Science's tailored earthquake and volcanic alerts.
Mailing lists
- Eqnews: subscribe to receive GeoNet earthquake reports via email.
