On blue-and-white signs, a cartoon wave curls out of the sea, capital letters blaring: TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE. Harbingers of a future disaster are always in the periphery, staked next to highways ...

Unlike the waves we enjoy at the beach, tsunami waves don’t break because they don’t get steep enough. Energy distributed throughout the water column and wavelengths extending a hundred miles ...

Council-developed maps updated in 2023 identified kilometres of coastal evacuation zones in Tauranga based on a “maximum credible tsunami wave” of 14m, generated by a magnitude 9 or higher ...