Users of earthquake-prone buildings

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If you use or occupy an earthquake-prone building, or live or work in an area where there are earthquake-prone buildings, earthquake-prone building notices will give you information about how a building is expected to perform in an earthquake.

Earthquake-prone information

Buildings that are earthquake-prone have to have an earthquake-prone building notice displayed. These notices have different borders to indicate the earthquake rating category the building is in.

Read about the meaning of these notices 

Priority buildings

There is a category of earthquake-prone buildings called priority buildings that only applies in high and medium seismic risk areas.

Priority buildings are considered higher risk because of their construction, type, use or location.

Priority buildings must be identified and remediated in half the time frame available for other buildings in the same seismic risk area.

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This information is published by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Chief Executive. It is a general guide only and, if used, does not relieve any person of the obligation to consider any matter to which the information relates according to the circumstances of the particular case. Expert advice may be required in specific circumstances. Where this information relates to assisting people: