What is NZ’s biggest/worst disaster? Worst of 1900’s-present

Introduction NZ context

150 Throughout this poster, the things that will be has had few fatal disasters, 22 explained are; How to/what is the best way to given that earthquakes are a common determine what the biggest/worst disaster in NZ occurrence. Since 1960 there have been is. (There are multiple different ways of more than 28,000 earthquakes of assessing the size of the disaster and many magnitude 4 and above. Yet very few of ways of determining how.) Some of the biggest and worst disasters in NZ, some background them have resulted in natural disasters. information on each disaster (numbers of Number of deaths within these disasters, etc.), earthquakes by magnitude

The Top Contenders 646 $40bn Total deaths in the top Estimated rebuild cost for 4 worst disasters in NZ Christchurch earthquake (2011)

Tangiwai Disaster-(1953) Christchurch Earthquake-(2011)

Wahine Disaster-(1968) Mount Erebus Air Crash-(1979)

● On Tuesday the 22nd of February ● The rail disaster 2011, a large earthquake with the occurred on the 24th of magnitude of 6.3 and depth of 5km December, 1953 at precisely struck Christchurch and 10:21pm Lyttelton, NZ ● There was not much damage ● The Mount Erebus air crash, Air NZ ● On the 10th of April 1968, the ● The earthquake caused a mass done by the train considering flight 901 was scheduled to be a sinking of the amount of damage and many it was the weather that had beautiful sight-seeing flight for the buildings were completely Lyttelton- ferry 257 passengers boarding the biggest effect Wahine occurred destroyed A ● It occurred on the 28th of November ● https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/chris ● The River bridge ●B It crashed into a nearby barrier 1979. The pilot (Jim Collins) wanted collapsed beneath a reef and the propellers started to to give his passengers the full tchurch-earthquake-kills-185 Wellington to train in slow down and eventually Antarctic experience, but because References

Tangiwai, New Zealand stopped Mount Ross was covered with over http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/Earthquake+Facts+ ● The driver of this train didn't ● 51 people lost their lives that day 2000 feet of snow, Jim was supposed and+Statistics to follow a route around the mountain GeoNet - Quakes know what was coming up and another 2 people a few days http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/Historical+Earthq later from injuries that occurred so his passengers could still get a uakes ahead until he saw it. The pier view of what they paid to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_New on the boat wreck _Zealand had folded inward and fell ● The route was messed up when the ● Footage recorded from that day https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/christchur deep into the ocean. The train connection was lost with the person ch-counts-the-cost-four-years-on-from-earthquake-623937 was shown and was a media 5 shot off the end and into the looking after the mountain and flights spotlight for all over the world. https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=christchurch+earthqu water that come past it. ake+2011&espv=2&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidjv ● https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/p ● The plane went up to go over and 3Kj9PSAhULybwKHYB_DPMQ_AUIBygA&biw=1366&bih=6 ● https://nzhistory.govt.nz/cultur hoto/wahine-disaster-rescue-stor 62&dpr=1#q=cost+of+rebuild+for+christchurch+earthquak around Mount Erebus at an amazing e+2011&* e/the-tangiwai-railway-disaster y speed but it wasn't fast enough. Flight https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/the-tangiwai-railway-disa ster ● https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/ 901 flew straight into Mount Erebus http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/eyewitne wahine-disaster and exploded ss/galleries/margaret-rankine ● http://www.erebus.co.nz/background/t http://www.erebus.co.nz/resources/photogallery/tabid/29 ● https://my.christchurchcitylibrarie 0/albumid/1036-41/default.aspx s.com/wahine/ hestory.aspx

Conclusion Death percentages (of how many people were there) ● -151 While the Mount Erebus air crash was the worst disaster for deaths, the deaths-85.79% Christchurch earthquake was the biggest/worst for finance loss.The tangiwai ● Wahine disaster-53 deaths-7.2% rail disaster did not make that much mess, unlike the Christchurch earthquake ● Mt Erebus air crash-257 deaths-100% that is still trying to be fixed today. There are a lot of buildings that are still ● Christchurch destroyed. earthquake-185-0.0503% By Hana Sayed, Xanthe Cooling and Nina Day