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This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major peacetime disasters which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.
East coast of New Zealand: Bay of Plenty, Otago: Cyclone, caused violent wind in northeastern North Island and flooding throughout Dunedin and coastal Otago: 1929 New Zealand cyclone: 1929: Earthquake: 17: Murchison: Tasman: M 7.8: 1929 Murchison earthquake: 1931: Earthquake: 256: Napier/Hastings: Hawke's Bay: Official death toll of 256 ...
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New Zealand reports a daily, monthly, quarterly and annual nationwide road toll, [1] plus special period figures for a number of holiday periods: [2] Christmas – New Year : between 4pm on 24 December (22 or 23 December if 24 December falls on a weekend) and 6am on 3 January (4 or 5 January if 1 and/or 2 January fall on a weekend or 2 January falls on a Friday).
The official death toll was 256 although the Napier earthquake memorial lists 258 names. [22] Of these, 161 people were in Napier , 93 in Hastings , and two in Wairoa . [ 3 ] Thousands more were injured, with over 400 hospitalised. [ 12 ]
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Human death toll Volcano VEI Location Year Eruption Source(s) 71,000 to 250,100+ Mount Tambora: 7 Indonesia: 1815 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Year Without a Summer: 36,000+ Krakatoa: 6 Indonesia: 1883 1883 eruption of Krakatoa: 30,000 Mount Pelée: 4 Martinique: 1902 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée: 23,000 Nevado del Ruiz: 3 Colombia: 1985 ...