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What do SALSA and the Alpine Fault have in common, you ask? Not too much, unless you fancy adding some salsa to your emergency supplies! In this case SALSA stands for “Southern Alps Long Skinny [...]

A study led by Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington senior lecturer Dr Jamie Howarth indicates that there is a 75% probability of an Alpine Fault earthquake occurring in the next [...]

Do you take your preparedness on holiday with you? It is impossible to predict exactly when and where an earthquake will occur, or what the outcomes will be, but the intent of this story is to [...]

We haven’t been able to get out and about as much as we would have liked to this year. However, we were fortunate enough to take to the road recently with our friends at QuakeCoRE as part [...]

We can’t predict when or where New Zealand’s next large earthquake will be or how its impacts will be felt, but we can do more with what we have learnt – from experience and from [...]

AF8 was built on a strong foundation of scientific research, and has been supported over the last five years by 30 scientists from Resilience to Nature’s Challenges, QuakeCoRE, GNS Science and [...]

This year has continued our recent run of declared states of emergency around the country with what will be the largest All of Government response seen in New Zealand probably since the last [...]

The six South Island CDEM (Civil Defence Emergency Management) Groups and their partner agencies recently practiced a South Island-wide response to a major Alpine Fault earthquake. Exercise Rū [...]

Coordinated response planning for the next Alpine Fault earthquake continued in Nelson last Wednesday 23 October at the AF8 SAFER Forum. The AF8 SAFER (South Island Alpine Fault Earthquake [...]

Tourism operators, scientists, emergency managers and partner agencies gathered in Te Anau this week to attend the AF8 Tourism Forum. The Minister of Civil Defence Emergency Management, Hon. [...]

Last week the AF8 Roadshow: The Science Beneath Our Feet was awarded the EMPA Excellence Award for Emergency Communication Readiness and Resilience at the 2019 New Zealand EMPA Conference. [...]

Last month the AF8 Roadshow wrapped up its inaugural tour of the South Island. The Roadshow forms a pivotal part of AF8’s ongoing communication activities. While we can’t predict earthquakes we [...]

The AF8 project has been recognised at the SOLGM Local Government Excellence® Awards, winning the BERL Award for Collaborative Government Action for their work leading Project AF8. The Alpine [...]

The first AF8 Roadshow, The Science Beneath Our Feet, will tour the six South Island CDEM regions in March-April 2019, bringing together secondary students, scientists and CDEM in a conversation [...]

Happy 2019 We hope the new year has been treating you well so far! In 2018 we launched our SAFER (South Island Alpine Fault Earthquake Response) Framework at the National Lifelines Forum in [...]

This morning we launched the SAFER Framework at the National Lifelines Utilities Forum in Wellington. The South Island Alpine Fault Earthquake Response (SAFER) Framework sets out a concept for [...]

Project AF8 has released four short videos (around 2 minutes each) to explain why we are taking the Alpine Fault so seriously and help people understand how they can be prepared for the [...]

South Island Workshops Ripple North Year-1 of Project AF8 culminated in June in a highly interactive, multi-agency planning workshop in Wellington, in conjunction with the Wellington Earthquake [...]

South Island Workshops Ripple to Wellington Year-1 of Project AF8 is progressing well, with interest and engagement spurred on by the November 2016 Kaikōura earthquakes, wildfires, and floods. [...]

Project AF8 planning workshops for a major magnitude 8.2 Alpine Fault earthquake are continuing apace throughout the South Island. These workshops are part of a series being held in each of [...]

Representatives of fifty organisations from throughout Otago met in Dunedin today to participate in planning for the first week of response to a major Alpine Fault earthquake. The planning [...]

Project AF8 is a cutting edge risk scenario-based earthquake response planning project, informed by thorough earthquake source, expression, and consequences science.  The focus of the project is [...]

Developing a coordinated response to an Alpine Fault rupture to assist and enhance community resilience across the South Island. Project AF8, the concerted collaborative effort to assess and plan [...]