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The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, ... Today, this area is the location of Hawke's Bay Airport, [10] housing and industrial developments and farmland. [citation needed]
Hawke's Bay: 6.1: 5.5 [34] 12 km: 39.85°S: 176.58°E: Felt throughout lower North Island, damaging in Hawke's Bay 10 December 1958 Mayor Island Bay of Plenty 6.1 285 km 37.27°S 176.72°E Felt throughout North Island and upper South Island 14 September 1959: Raoul Island: Kermadec Islands: 7.8: 35 km: 28.82°S: 177.07°W: Felt in the East half ...
Ahuriri Lagoon (Māori: Te Whanganui-a-Orotū) was a large tidal lagoon at Napier, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, that largely drained when the area was raised by the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Before the earthquake, the lagoon stretched several kilometres from north to south, and covered roughly 4000 hectares (ha), or 40 km 2.
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47 am on Tuesday 3 February 1931, killing 256 and devastating the Hawke's Bay region. It remains New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster. Centred 15 km north of Napier, it lasted for two and a half minutes and measured magnitude 7.8.
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47 am on Tuesday 3 February 1931, killing 256 and devastating the Hawke's Bay region. It remains New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster. Centred 15 km north of Napier, it lasted for two and a half minutes and measured magnitude 7.8.
The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said Andy Newman, a professor of geophysics at Georgia Tech. As for what’s behind the recent shakes ...
The Pilots got out in time. I have a picture of me on the front page of the NY daily news. ... We visited the hawkes Bay beach for the 1st time in late July or mid August, the memory is little ...
The Hastings Clock Tower was commissioned as a symbol of triumph over adversity to commemorate the rebuild of Hastings following the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Although not intended to be an official earthquake memorial, the clock tower has become the central identity for the earthquake, where annual memorial services have taken place on 3 ...