Disaster Timeline

  • 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