A description of some disasters that have occurred in NZ

2. Dangers in
NewZealand
by Jack, Robert, Rowan and
Ceejay

4. NAPIER EARTHQUAKE

5. NAPIER EARTHQUAKE
On the 3rd of February 1931 New Zealand’s deadliest
Earthquake struck Napier at 10.47 am.
It was magnitude 7.8.
256 people died,161 in Napier,
93 in Hastings and two in Wairoa.
Many thousands did need urgent medical attention.

7. Tangiwai Railway
• Christmas Eve 1953 was a fine night, after a day
without rain. There was nothing to show that the
Whangeahu River would be in flood when the
Wellington to Auckland express train was due to
cross the railway bridge at Tangiwai.

8. Tangiwai Railway
• Christmas Eve 1953 was a fine night, after a day
without rain. There was nothing to show that the
Whangeahu River would be in flood when the
Wellington to Auckland express train was due to
cross the railway bridge at Tangiwai.
• Part of the wall holding the crater lake on Mount
Ruapehu collasped, a huge flood of water and silt,
known as lahar, flowed down the river and took
out the railway bridge. When the train arrived it
fell into the river and 151 people died.

10. Christchurch
Earthquakes
• On September the 4th 2010 there was a
magnitude 7.1 earthquake. No one died, but
people got injured. Many animals and people
could not get enough food or water.

11. Christchurch
Earthquakes
• On September the 4th 2010 there was a
magnitude 7.1 earthquake. No one died, but
people got injured. Many animals and people
could not get enough food or water.
• Then on the 22nd of February 2011 there was
a 6.3 Earthquake. The earthquake was shallow
and close to the city. 356 people have died in
this serious disaster in Christchurch.

13. Wahine Disaster

14. Wahine Disaster
• On the morning of 10 April, 1968, Cyclone
Giselle hit Wellington at the same time as
another storm which had driven up the
West Coast of the South Island from
Antarctica. The two storms met over the
capital city, creating a single storm just as
the inter-islander ferry Wahine was
crossing Cook Strait. 51 people died.