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Quite early on, European settlers were faced with the reality of earthquakes in their new home. On 26 May 1840, the new settlement at Port Nicholson was struck by the first of a number of earthquakes and tremors. [4] Early settlers learned fairly quickly the importance of using appropriate building methods in an earthquake-prone country.
Insurance claims totalled between NZ$2.75 and $3.5 billion, [22] although it is unclear how much cost can be attributed to each of the earthquake events in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. The total estimated damage bill was up to $40 billion, making it the fifth-biggest insurance event in the world since 1953.
A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC, 21 February). [2] [10] The M w 6.2 (M L 6.3) earthquake struck the Canterbury region in the South Island, centred 6.7 kilometres (4.2 mi) south-east of the central business district. [11]
This list of natural disasters in New Zealand documents notable natural disasters and epidemics that have occurred in New Zealand since 1843. Of these natural disasters, the 1918 flu pandemic resulted in the highest loss of life with 8,600 deaths in New Zealand.
Canterbury earthquake can refer to: 1888 North Canterbury earthquake; 1901 Cheviot earthquake that caused building damage in Christchurch. 2010 Canterbury earthquake; 2011 Christchurch earthquake; 2016 KaikÅura earthquake
1855 Wairarapa earthquake: earthquake 23 Jan 1855: Lake Wairarapa: 9 2010 Fox Glacier FU-24 crash: air accident 4 Sep 2010: Fox Glacier: 7 1941 Kowhitirangi shootings: spree killing 8 Oct 1941 – 9 Oct 1941: Kowhitirangi, near Hokitika: four police officers and three civilians killed 7 Cyclone Bola: cyclone 6 Mar 1988 – 12 Mar 1988: North ...
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems [3] — they rely mainly ...
1869 Christchurch earthquake on 5 June 1869; 2010 Canterbury earthquake on 4 September 2010; December 2010 Christchurch earthquake on 26 December 2010; 2011 Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011; June 2011 Christchurch earthquake on 13 June 2011; 2016 Christchurch earthquake on 14 February 2016