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Hawks bay Earthquake

The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake,also known as the Napier earthquake,occured in in New Zealand at 10.47 am on Tuesday Febuary 3 1931,klling 256 and devastating the hawkes bay region.It remains New Zeands deadliest natural disaster .Centured 1tkm north of Napier,it lasted for two and a half minutes and measured 7.8 on the ricter scale.Ther wereabout 526 aftershocks recorded in the **folling two weeks 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake**, also known as the **Napier earthquake.**

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Tangiwai railway disaster

At 10.21 p.m. on Christmas Eve 1953 the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, 10 kilometres west of Waiouru in the central North Island. Of the 285 passengers on board, 151 died in New Zealand's worst railway accident. It was, at the time, the world’s eighth-deadliest rail disaster and made headlines around the globe. The nation was stunned. With New Zealand’s population at just over two million, many people had a direct relationship with someone involved in the tragedy. The place name Tangiwai means ‘weeping waters’ in Maori. The timing of the accident added to the sense of tragedy. Most of those on the train were heading home for Christmas, armed with presents for friends and family. Those waiting to meet their loved ones at the various stations up the line had no sense of the tragedy unfolding on the volcanic plateau. Over the following days, searchers found many battered, mud-soaked presents, toys and teddy bears on the banks of the Whangaehu River .New Zealand, 1953 had been a year of significant milestones. In May, Edmund Hillary had scaled the hights of Mt Everest.On 23 December the country could barely control its excitement at the arrival of the beautiful young Queen Elizabeth II and her dashing husband, Prince Philip. All of this changed on Christmas Day, when Prime Minister Sidney Holland announce with ‘profound regret’ news of the accident in a radio broadcast from the military camp at Waiouru. With no newspapers produced on Christmas Day, this was the first many New Zealanders had heard of the tragic events of the previous evening. The weather on Christmas Eve was fine and there had been little rain. There was no indication that the Whangaehu River would be in flood. A goods train had crossed the bridge around 7 p.m. and the river had appeared normal. What transformed this situation was the sudden release of approximately two million cubic metres of water from the crater lake of nearby Mt Ruapehu. This lahar produced a 6-metre-high wave of water, ice, mud and rocks, which surged, tsunami-like, down the Whangaehu River. Sometime between 10.10 and 10.15 p.m. it struck the concrete pylons of the Tangiwai railway bridge.