New Zealand ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi, is taking place on Thursday 24 October at 9:30am.
Sign up your family or whole school at https://getready.govt.nz/involved/shakeout/sign-up.
All of New Zealand is at risk of earthquakes and all of our coastline is at risk of tsunami. We can’t predict when they will happen, but we can protect ourselves and those we care about.
This year all early childhood centres, schools and tertiary organisations are being encouraged to sign up, hold a Pāhake | Drop, Hīpoki | Cover and Pupuri | Hold drill. Plan a tsunami hīkoi if you are in a tsunami zone.
Families, individuals, businesses and other organisations can all take part.
More information, resources and sign up go to https://getready.govt.nz/involved/shakeout.
Related content
The Hub is inundated with natural hazards resources, check out the introductory articles on: Earthquakes, On shaky ground (primary), Volcanoes and Tsunamis to see some of our many resources, including articles, atcivities, video and more.
Under our PLD Planning section, there is both an earthquake and a volcano planning pathway article. These each comprise of an article and interactive that provide pedagogical advice and organise Hub resources into key science concepts and topics.
Alternatively, see our earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunami topics – remember you can use the filters to focus the resutls for you needs.
Disaster response activity ideas
For activities directly linked to disaster responses, check out: Who's on your team? and Home disaster kit.
