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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PRECIOUS MEMORIES SHARED PAGE 3 PAGE 5 CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK • QUESTIONS ABOUT REFUSAL TO TEST UNWELL PASSENGERS • AGED CARE HOMES EXPRESS CONCERNS • F&P HEALTHCARE SHARES HIT RECORD • VIRUS SPREAD SHIFTING WESTWARD PAGES 7,9, 11 FULLY ABLAZE An old unoccupied home in Endcliffe Road was destroyed in a spectacular fire early this morning. The house was burning furiously when fire crews arrived and it took them an hour to bring it under control. Only the shell of the home remains standing. STORY ON PAGE 3 Picture by Alice Te Puni by Andrew Ashton zones had been designed over “we need to be prepared.” a two-year period and that A series of drop-in sessions at PEOPLE should start information was the key to HB Williams Memorial Library planning their safest evacuation survival. will take place every Tuesday routes in preparation for a The Hikurangi subduction from next week to the end of the major earthquake and tsunami zone, where the Pacific plate month. TSUNAMI that could inundate Gisborne subducts (dives underneath) the The information sessions and “take out” Tolaga Bay Australian plate, is the most start at 5.30pm and will involve entirely. active fault line in New Zealand a computer-generated model That was the advice after and is as close as 30km offshore showing how a tsunami will Gisborne District Council of Gisborne. react following a 8.9 magnitude revealed official tsunami escape Subduction zones are also earthquake in the subduction routes and tsunami safe zones responsible for the world’s zone, with an epicentre 30km to go along with a recently- most powerful “mega-thrust” from Gisborne. ESCAPE updated tsunami inundation earthquakes, as well as At a media briefing last night, report and updated inundation tsunami. Dr Cave said following an zones. Dr Cave said Tairawhiti earthquake (involving about two The evacuation routes had not experienced a major and two-and-a-half minutes of have been designed to inform tsunami such as those in shaking), much of the Poverty residents how to survive in the Japan and South East Asia, Bay Flats would experience credible event of a 10-to-15- which demonstrated the subsidence. metre tsunami inundation widespread impact of tsunami In 30 minutes a 10m tsunami ROUTES generated by an 8.9 magnitude on communities. would inundate the area, with earthquake in the Hikurangi However, Tairawhiti was water likely to reach from subduction zone. probably the part of New Awapuni to as far as Patutahi Council principal scientist Dr Zealand that would be most and Hexton. ‘We need to be prepared’ Murry Cave said the evacuation affected by such a tsunami and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 21950-01 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ..............9 Farming ........ 13-14 Classifieds ... 17-19 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............10 Television ...........15 Sport ............ 20-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ............ 6-8 World............ 11-12 Racing ................16 Weather .............23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Makauri A1 Mangapapa Makaraka B1 B2 B3 B4 Te Hapara Matawhero Whataupoko Elgin Outer Kaiti Manutuke Awapuni C1 C2 C3 C4 Kaiti C5 C6 Okitu Tamarau The overall tsunami evacuation route map for Gisborne. More detailed routes, showing vehicle and foot routes will Wainui be available on the Gisborne District Council website. D1 D2 The Red Zone represents the highest D3 risk zone and is the first place people should evacuate from in all types of Poverty Bay tsunami warnings (natural or official) generated near and far. The Orange Zone is the area evacuated in most if not all distant and regional source official warnings (ie. warnings that extend beyond the Red Zone for tsunami from sources more than À E1 E2 one hour of travel time away from À Vehicle Route the mapped location. The intent is to À provide for a middle zone to avoid over- À Foot Route evacuation in most official warnings; Tracks / Accessway however, larger regional/distant-source events may occur in which case the Yellow Inundation Zone Yellow Zone will apply. Orange Inundation Zone Muriwai The Yellow Zone indicates inundation Red Inundation Zone generated from an 8.9 earthquake in the local Hikurangi subduction zone off the Tsunami Safe Zone East Coast. F1 F2 Tsunami Evacuation Routes Get gone: Not enough time to wait for warning FROM PAGE 1 strong shaking where you are should walk, bike or scooter to very strong or long event, don’t are resilient and know to However, it would not reach unlikely to be able to stand. the tsunami “Green Zone”. assume you are safe. Treat it as head for the hills in a tsunami Gisborne Hospital which was on When the shaking dies off there This was for two reasons. a significant event and get safe. emergency event.” higher ground. will be aftershocks but that’s Firstly, it would avoid traffic Don’t think because you are The water would retreat the critical period for people to jams. Secondly, local bridges in the yellow zone it will only ■ MAYOR Rehette Stoltz said the before a second tsunami think about moving.” would be unlikely to retain the inundate the orange zone.” council was launching the Gisborne followed. The height of that Dr Cave said people should ability to hold motor vehicles Dr Cave said people should city evacuation routes and tsunami would be smaller but the not wait for a warning because following the earthquake. wait until told it was safe before inundation modelling for the Tairawhiti volume of water would be there would not be enough time. For those unable to make it, returning. region in response to that risk. higher than the first. In Tolaga Bay, the shape they should plan for “vertical “Significant inundations can Roadshow meetings will be held “This is a maximum credible of the bay would funnel the evacuation” by staying in a occur over a four-to-five-hour for East Coast communities over the event,” he said. “This is based tsunami into an even higher building that was still standing period but smaller waves may coming months. on essentially an equivalent velocity. and at least three storeys high. affect the coastline for more Mayor Stoltz said such an event, event that happened in Japan Dr Cave likened it to using a GDC’s new tsunami than 24 hours. I think the which may take place in our lifetime or on March 20, 2011. nozzle on a hosepipe. evacuation zones are detailed on protocol is that people should that of our children, was a key priority “The overall setting is very “That’s why in these smaller its website, with areas split into wait until they are advised it is for the council, and residents needed similar in that the rupture bays the issue of speed of the red, orange and yellow. safe to return.” to be prepared. was on their fault, which is wave coming in will be greater However, those colourings are Tairawhiti civil defence and “We need to prepare ourselves, equivalent to ours, and the than on the Poverty Bay Flats. only to distinguish likelihood emergency manager Wiremu our families, loved ones and our inundation times are similar. Under this scenario it would of inundation during smaller Tamati-Smith said consultation community. If it’s long and/or strong, “It takes about 30 minutes “take out the entire town”. events. In the event of a around evacuation routes for get gone and self-evacuate. for the tsunami to arrive based People should start planning major event on the Hikurangi Tolaga Bay and other East on this modelling. In an event their evacuation routes now. subduction zone, the only safe Coast communities would take ■ Full maps will be on the GDC like this we will have about However, official advice was colour is green. place over the coming months. website, gdc.govt.nz, click on Tsunami two-and-a-half minutes of not to drive those routes. People “The critical thing is if it’s a “Our people up the Coast Maps link. 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Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Grant Miller/John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, March 4, 2020 NEWS 3 Endcliffe Road house destroyed by fire by Murray Robertson house was vacant and had been so for some time. A HOUSE at the Wainui Road “That was a relief given how end of Endcliffe Road was far advanced the fire was when destroyed by fire this morning we got there.” and a specialist fire investigator They had to call in extra has been called in to investigate. firefighters. Fire and Emergency NZ “We had paid staff and received multiple 111 calls about volunteers assisting us.” the blaze shortly before 5am.