James Muirhead

Don't tempt fate.

Yeah, exactly.

And it could go either way in that sense either.

But in a world with unlimited money and no consequences, I'd be like, why not?

You know, it is exciting.

I really love my job.

And ever since I was a kid, I always was fascinated by volcanoes and earthquakes and excited that I lived in such a dynamic country and wanted to be involved and be a part of it.

So it always feels great that we can make contributions towards our country's understanding of this.

Although I wasn't surprised to find that we had to enact a fault around Auckland.

You know, I expect that we will see...

more evidence of this as we go forward.

But I am very, very excited that I can be a part of this because it's something that I'm very passionate about.

I'd say that at this stage, there is no sure way to predict an earthquake.

The main thing, like we mentioned, is to make sure your infrastructure is secure, people have really good emergency planning in place, and everybody is aware of the possible earthquake hazard.

in this town or city and they know how to react during an event.

And that includes making sure that you are prepared with things like go bags and the unlikely event that that occurs and that you will make sure that you have adequate food and water to deal with the aftermath of such an event.

Our project is exploratory, more so.

They've provided us $100,000 of support, and that will help to support our science activities as well as the student.

But to really grasp the full earthquake history of Auckland, we should be looking at the order of a few million at least, yeah, yeah, yeah, long term.

I'm hoping that in the next year or two years, we'll at least be able to answer the question whether two more of the fault lines around Auckland are active.