The PULSE project (Physical processes UnderLying Slow Earthquakes) is a GNS Science led, newly funded Marsden project that joins a range of other efforts to better understand the Hikurangi Subduction zone.

PULSE focuses on an area near Cape Turnagain and Pōrangahau on the East Coast where slow slip events happen roughly every five years.

Over 80 instruments have been installed onshore and offshore in order to capture crustal deformation and seismicity related to the next slow slip event.