Read up on what has happened in the past in NZ vbefore you moved there...
Murchison, Inaugahua Junction....
(grin!) New Zealand is a Civil Defense Officer’s dream assignment!
(I was in Civil Defense and disaster planning for a few years either side of 2000)
We got lucky this past year with Ruapehu’s lahar. Fortunately it didn’t amount to much this time around (but it could have!)