"You asked for a faster GeoNet......
 Well next week, you get it!

 On Tuesday 6th of March our Beta website "GeoNet Rapid" goes live.  The team here at GeoNet have been working on this new system for the past year and are excited to see what you think!

The basics:
- Speed : You will be seeing details of earthquakes from around 2 minutes of their occurrence, as a computer system locates the earthquake as soon as the data arrives (rather than a person waiting for all of the data).
- Numbers : More events will be posted to the rapid site, not just the larger/more widely felt events that we put on the 'recent quakes page' (we located over 19,000 earthquakes last year, so there are plenty!)
- Regions :  Its easier to view earthquakes in your area, with options to see various regions in NZ as well as 'all' or 'felt' events.  You can also view statistics on the earthquakes in the various regions in the last week/month and year.
- History : As more data comes in, the details of an earthquake can change (magnitude/depth etc.) You can see all of these changes right up to the final location as all of the data has been received from our instruments out in the field. The first location can be made in under a minute, as the first data comes in!
- Issues:  This is a beta testing site, so things can go wrong!  Don't panic, thats why we have the test site, to discover all issues and fix them!

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Sara - GeoNet Outreach Coordinator