Disaster Timeline

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  • Wairarapa earthquake

    Between 5-9 died
    8.2

  • HMS Orpheus

    shipwreck

    186 died

  • Tarawera Eruption

    120 died

  • Penguin Shipwreck

    72 died

  • Ongrue Railway Accident

    17 died
    First Major loss of Life on New Zealand Railways

  • Murchison earthquake

    7.8 17 died

  • Napier earthquake

    7.8 256 died

  • Kopuawhara flood

    21 died

  • Ballantyne's fire

    41 died

  • Tangiwai railway accident

    151 died New Zealand's worst railway disaster