News & Updates

At CRISiSLab, we are committed to staying at the forefront of our respective fields and keeping our stakeholders informed about the latest developments in our research and activities. To this end, we regularly share news and updates through a variety of channels, including updates on this page.

CRISiSLab Webinar 2024 - Experiments in Earthquake Early Warning Transplantation

The presentation is on work undertaken by GNS Science as part of the RCET program in New Zealand, and EEW work from ShakeAlert in the US.

Mar 22, 2024

People's perception of earthquake alerts: To continue subscribing or not?

A paper on New Zealand’s public perception of the Android Earthquake Alert (AEA) system has been published in the International Journal...

Oct 5, 2023

People's Choice Award - 3MT Massey University

Congratulations to Chanthujan Chandrakumar for winning the People's Choice Award for the Three-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition at Massey...

Sep 18, 2023

How have Kiwis reacted to earthquake early warning?

A recent paper has been published on how Kiwis perceived and reacted to earthquake early warning (EEW) alerts sent out by the Android...

Sep 13, 2023

CRISiSLab at the 2023 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting

The 2023 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting was held in Napier from 29-31 August. Almost 250 attendees from different organisations within and...

Sep 1, 2023

Into the second phase of our EEW network

For the past three years, we have been operating a network of 30+ sensors hosted by community members to enhance our research on...

Jul 13, 2023

CRISiSLab Webinar: Earthquake Early Warning in China and Beyond

On 8 June 2023, we invited Professor Tun Wang from China to share with our Earthquake Early Warning Community of Practice on the topic of...

Jun 12, 2023

Upcoming CRISiSLab Webinar: Earthquake Early Warning in China and Beyond

Our CRISiSLab Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) Webinar continues and we are excited to announce our next speaker Prof. Tun Wang from China...

May 23, 2023

PhD student showcases innovative EEW research at SSA Conference in Puerto Rico

PhD student Chanthujan Chandrakumar recently had the opportunity to present his groundbreaking research at the annual SSA conference in...

May 12, 2023

CRISiSLab Earthquake Early Warning Webinar – The Human Side of EEW

On 18 August 2022, our star social scientists Associate Professor Julia Becker and Dr Lauren Vinnell shared some of their research on how...

Feb 27, 2023

CRISiSLab Webinar: Saving Precious Seconds – A New Decentralised Architecture for EEW

On the 2nd of June, 2022, CRISiSLab conducted the newest webinar presented by some of our team members. The topic is: “Saving Precious...

Jun 3, 2022

Google presented at the CRISiSLab webinar

On the 29th of March 2022, product manager Micah Berman for Android Safety from Google presented at CRISiSLab Webinar. His presentation...

Apr 21, 2022

Journal Paper on a Novel Architecture for Low-cost Earthquake Early Warning System

The CRISiSLab team’s earthquake early warning technical paper, entitled “Saving Precious Seconds”, was recently published in the...

Apr 21, 2022

Introducing our EEW work with ISCRAM at EENA

We had an opportunity with the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Association to present our earthquake...

Feb 24, 2022

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing

On the 8th of February, we had our first CRISiSLab webinar in the new year 2022. Dr Elizabeth Reddy gave us a passionate presentation to...

Feb 10, 2022

CRISiSLab Webinar: Thoughts on Earthquake Early Warning and Operational Forecasting in Southwest Ice

On the 1st of December, CRISiSLab hosted the last webinar of the year 2021 regarding the Earthquake Early Warning theme. We invited Dr...

Feb 2, 2022

Webinar on the Community Seismic Network and EEW

On the 7th of October, CRISiSLab hosted another Earthquake Early Warning themed webinar. We invited Research Professor Monica Kohler from...

Oct 12, 2021

Conference proceedings: insights from the community-of-practice.

Early in 2020, we started to support a community of researchers and practitioners on earthquake early warning (EEW)! We continue to host...

Jul 6, 2021