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Hazardous Times is a newsletter that was released every six months to update people on current hazard research and risk treatment projects being undertaken by the ARC.

The newsletter has been discontinued in its previous form, for the latest news and updates see Research projects.

Back issues of the Hazardous Times are available online below, paper copies have been discontinued in order to align ourselves more closely with the ARC's values of reducing paper use and waste.

The newsletters below are available for download in pdf format, for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Visit the Adobe website for more information.

Volume 8 No 1 - March 2004 (143.3 KB PDF)

  • Climate Change: Reducing the Effects in the Auckland Region
  • Clarks Beach Coastal Erosion Management Guidelines
  • News in Brief - Earthquake Summary
  • AELG Update
  • Action on Contaminated Onehunga Land
  • CDEM Group Update.

Volume 7 No 2 - October 2003 (222.1 KB PDF)

  • Reducing Auckland's Earthquake Risk: Building on or Near Active Faults
  • News In Brief - Earthquake Summary, Wave Climate of the Hauraki Gulf
  • Mudslides, Tsunami and Tawharanui
  • AELG Update
  • Cities on Volcanoes 3 Conference
  • CDEM Group Update.

Volume 7 No 1 - June 2003 (527.2 KB PDF)

Volume 6 No 2 - September 2002 (134.2 KB PDF)

  • Muriwai Coastal Hazard Management Strategy
  • News In Brief - Managing Volcanic Hazards in Auckland, Exercise Phoenix, CDEMG Update
  • Hazards Guidelines Project
  • Living on the Edge - Cliff Erosion on the North Shore
  • Planning for Volcanic Eruptions in Auckland
  • AELG Update.

Volume 6 No 1 - April 2002 (332.1 KB PDF)

  • Quiet Times? Auckland's ashfall threat
  • News In Brief - Auckland Earthquakes - 2001, ARC Hazard Website
  • AELG Update
  • Hazardous Substance release from natural disasters
  • Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan - Update.

Volume 5 No 2 - September 2001 (1.2 MB PDF)

  • Extreme Rainfall at Leigh
  • News In Brief - Volcanic Contingency Plan, Phoenix 3
  • Climate Change and the Effect on Auckland's Hazards
  • Auckland's New Emergency Management Plan Well Advanced
  • AELG Update.

Volume 5 No 1 - April 2001 (5.3 MB PDF)

  • Auckland's Near Real Time Volcano-Seismic Monitoring Capability
  • News In Brief - Coastal Management Strategies, Coastal Dune Vegetation
  • Auckland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group
  • Cities on Volcanoes 2
  • AELG Update.

Volume 4 No 2 - September 2000 (5.2 MB PDF)

  • Low Impact Design Manual for the Auckland Region
  • Dam Safety Guidelines
  • News in Brief - Strong Motion Seismometer at Kauri Point, Hazard Watch, Auckland
  • Climate Change Presentation
  • The Coastal Erosion Management Manual and the Coastal Hazard Strategy
  • Auckland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group
  • AELG Update.

Volume 4 No 1 - April 2000 (515.9 KB PDF)

  • How do the Public view Auckland's Volcanic Hazard?
  • News in Brief - Climate Change Presentation, Earthquake Felt in Auckland, Lava and Strata Book
  • Auckland Engineering Lifelines Project - Completion of Stage One
  • Auckland Emergency Management Group
  • "GIS in Schools"
  • What you think of Hazardous Times.

Volume 3 No 2 - November 1999 (4.9 MB PDF)

  • Guidelines for Stormwater Modelling in the Auckland Region
  • Auckland Volcanic Risk Project
  • News in Brief - Hazardous Times Survey, La Nina, Cities on Volcanoes 2
  • AELG Update
  • Wairoa North Fault
  • Wave Climate Strategy
  • Auckland Emergency Management Group.

Volume 3 No 1 - March 1999 (5.2 MB PDF)

  • Pukekohe Flood Event: 21 January 1999
  • Soil Erosion - Awitu Peninsula
  • Wave Climate Strategy
  • Trees for Survival
  • Kerepehi Fault
  • News in Brief - Earthquake News, Web Site Update, Natural Hazards Database,
  • Wairoa North Fault
  • Coastal Hazards Strategy Story
  • AELG Update.

Volume 2 No 2 - October 1998 (4.4 MB PDF)

  • Wairoa North Fault
  • Guidelines for Hazard Information
  • Drury Fault
  • Auckland Movers and Shakers - Seismic Update
  • Waiheke Jitters
  • Hazards Management Team
  • News in Brief - Coastal Hazards Strategy, Disabilities Planning Guide, New Hazardfacts, Wellington's Big Shake up
  • AELG Update.

Volume 2 No 1 - March 1998 (4.0 MB PDF)

  • AELG
  • Weather Prediction
  • Geological Detective Work Investigates Instability
  • News in Brief - Coastal Hazards Database, Business Shortcuts, Wairoa Flood
  • Management Plan, Sorry, Wrong Number, Lifeline Web.

Volume 1 No 2 - September 1997 (4.1 MB PDF)

  • Auckland's Seismicity
  • News in Brief - Heavy Rainfall and Storm Patterns, Assessment of Auckland's
  • Ground Shaking Hazard, Technological Hazards, New Look Hazardfacts, Volcanic
  • Hazard and Impact Assessment, AELP Hazard Information
  • Lifelines Project Enters Second Phase
  • Children's Understanding of Hazards.

Volume 1 No 1 - February 1997 (3.5 MB PDF)

  • Wairoa North Fault Hazard Assessment
  • Assessment of Auckland's Ground Shaking Hazard
  • News in Brief - Volcanic Hazard and Impact Assessment, School Hazards Perception
  • Study, Meteorological Hazard Assessment, Research Supported, Instability Hazard Assessment, Coastal Hazards
  • Volcano Monitoring gets a Boost
  • Auckland Engineering Lifelines Project.
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