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Magnitude eight plus : New Zealand's biggest earthquake /

Grapes, Rodney

Magnitude eight plus : New Zealand's biggest earthquake / - 2000 - 208 p. 24 cm.

This tells the exciting and frightening story of New Zealand's biggest earthquake that hit in 1955 and was centred in Wellington and the Wairarapa. Grapes presents the early settlers' stories, analyses the damage, looks at how locals dealt with the political ramifications and examines the geology of the region to work out why it occured.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Earthquakes--New Zealand.
Disasters --New Zealand

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Wellington (N.Z.)--History.

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