Disaster History

On 30 August 1903, New Zealand rugby international Joe Warbrick, David McNaughton, and sisters Ruby and Catherine Nicholls were killed after venturing close to the edge of the geyser, having ignored requests from Warbrick’s brother Alfred to return to a safe distance. The four were scalded and then swept away in a sudden violent eruption. […]

On this 2nd day, the month of September, the year is 1666. The great fire of London. The people of London who had managed to survive the Great Plague in 1665 must have thought that the year 1666 could only be better, and couldn’t possibly be worse! Poor souls… they could not have imagined the new disaster

In this article, it lists the people who died and on this 8th day of September, we remember them. “Also in the building was the editor of the Otago Witness, Robert WILSON and his family, as his wife owned a shop there. Of the twelve people who lost their lives, the Wilson family of Robert,

On the 11th day of September in 1880 Four children were killed and 13 adults injured when two rail carriages were blown off the tracks by severe winds on a notoriously exposed part of the Remutaka incline railway. (Siberia Curve, as in the picture) The Remutaka incline, completed in 1878, was one of New Zealand’s

For centuries before Europeans arrived, Māori had experienced rū whenua, which means ‘the shaking of the land’. According to Māori tradition, earthquakes are caused by the god Rūaumoko (or Rūamoko), the son of Ranginui (the Sky) and his wife Papatūānuku (the Earth). Rangi had been separated from Papa, and his tears had flooded the land.

The killer fog or The lake of death? This is one of the strangest and most fascinating natural disasters I have been researching. Take the time to learn about this one NZ Survivor Fans. On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. The eruption