• Two 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes shook the lower North Island of New Zealand on 24 June and 2 August. They were large and shallow with epicentres close together...
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    This is a list of large earthquakes that have occurred in New Zealand. Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater are listed, except for a few...
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  • 1855, the two 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes of magnitude 6.9 on 24 June 1942 and 6.8 on 1 August 1942, and the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on...
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  • New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. 8 August 1979. Retrieved 30 March 2015. "Wairarapa tsunami, 23 January 1855 - Tsunami - GeoNet". Info.geonet.org.nz. 22 February...
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    shoreline in 1840, indicating the extent of reclamation. The 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes caused considerable damage in Wellington. The area has high seismic...
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    deadly earthquakes since 1900 List of historical earthquakes List of megathrust earthquakes List of natural disasters by death toll "Earthquakes with 50...
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  • building. The resident population was 1,500 in the 1940s. After the 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes, 800 patients had to be moved to other hospitals. Subsequently...
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  • This is a list of earthquakes in 1942. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Lower magnitude events are included if they have caused...
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    Carterton, New Zealand (category Wairarapa)
    clock tower atop the post office that was damaged in the 24 June 1942 Wairarapa earthquake. The Bank of New South Wales, showing confidence in Carterton...
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  • Masterton. In June 1942, Tauweru was the epicentre of one of the most destructive earthquakes since European settlement of the Wairarapa in the mid-19th...
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  • in Dixon Street. While the second storey was removed after the 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes, the building still stands today as the Lone Star restaurant....
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    post office on Main Street, the clock was removed following the 1942 Wairarapa earthquake for safety reasons and placed into storage. In 1953 local business...
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  • June First US Troop arrived 1942 at Waitematā Harbour in Auckland. 24 June – A severe earthquake, the 1942 Wairarapa earthquake struck the lower North Island...
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    Fernside Homestead (category Buildings and structures in the Wairarapa)
    Zealand, North Island Though built of timber —in view of the 1942 Wairarapa earthquakes, fortunately — it was conceived as a brick building and the working...
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  • rockfall was recorded along the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa coastline, where the Mercalli intensity of the earthquake was VII and VIII. The cliffs from Cape Kidnappers...
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  • Paul's Dive Planet. Eileen McSaveney, Historic earthquakes – The 1929 Arthur's Pass and Murchison earthquakes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated...
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    more strengthening work to protect it against future earthquakes and it still remains empty. In 1942 the painting Psyche by Solomon Joseph Solomon was stolen...
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    during World War II, so in 1942 the Chateau was commandeered by the Health Department as an asylum when the Wairarapa earthquakes damaged Porirua Psychiatric...
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  • was twice called upon to assist with earthquake recovery efforts in Wellington and the Wairarapa region in 1942. Following the war, responsibility for...
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    sea, but was raised above sea-level by successive earthquakes, including the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake. The arch now appears as a hole in the rock, above...
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    Naenae Railway Station (opened 1946), on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, adjoins Naenae's shopping centre. Naenae's post-modern Post Office...
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  • Palmerston North–Gisborne Line (category 1942 in New Zealand)
    runs east through the Manawatū Gorge to Woodville, where it meets the Wairarapa Line, and then proceeds to Hastings and Napier in Hawke's Bay before following...
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  • February 2024. Winter, Gareth (22 February 2024). "A treasure remembered". Wairarapa Times-Age. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Panapa, Maioha (16 February 2024)...
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    turning inland towards Hastings, and onwards to Woodville (where the Wairarapa Line branches off) and Palmerston North. The Napier Port Branch, formerly...
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    Christchurch Town Hall (category 2011 Christchurch earthquake)
    to significant damage sustained during the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it was closed until 2019. Council staff initially recommended demolition...
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    predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. The 8.2–8.3 Mw  Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New...
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  • 30 men. Commander: Major-General Galloway By October 1863 there was no Wairarapa-based defence force, and 50 were based in Wanganui. The Otago force had...
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    construction town, but it too remains today. John Martin, the founder of the Wairarapa town of Martinborough, set out the town's first streets in the pattern...
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    "Timespanner: Remains of the Auckland Meat Company". 27 December 2011. Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 March 1882, 3 Jones G.O. 2019, From Wrexham to Wellington...
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  • "Can earthquakes be predicted?". Predict Weather. Retrieved 31 March 2011. Nathan Crombie (21 March 2011). "Ring prediction dismissed". Wairarapa Times-Age...
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