New Zealand Volcano Database

Database

This is an inter-related database covering Aotearoa New Zealand's active and dormant volcanoes. This is a Nationally Significant Database managed by GNS Science.

Nationally Significant Databases are those datasets and collections registered as important for New Zealand, and as such, they are supported by long-term government funding.

The following datasets form the Nationally Significant New Zealand Volcano Database:

 

Tilde: Time Series API(external link)

  • Lake, spring and fumarole temperatures and water levels (including Te Wai ā-moe Ruapehu Crater Lake), water chemistry, gas emission rates/flux, levelling data

 

FITS: Field Time Series Database(external link)

  • GNSS daily position solutions


The International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN) webservices(external link)

  • Seismic and acoustic measurements


Maps(external link)

  • Volcanic geology, FRED – 14C, active faults

 

  • The following datasets can be interrogated by sending a request to us

    The following datasets can be interrogated by sending a request to us. Please make requests as specific as possible, including the volcano/region and the time period of interest as well as data format and/or instrument requirements.

    • Gas analysis data
    • RSAM / SSAM
    • Magnetic surveys
    • Impacts
    • Microgravity
    • Aeromagnetics
    • Thermal IR
    • Tiltmeter data
    • InSAR
    • Volcanic ashfall forecasts
    • Rock samples
    • Ash samples
    • Historical and bibliographic collections of newspaper articles, diary transcripts, reports, reprints and photographs
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