Tornado struck near midday on 25 August 1948 On 25 August 1948, a tornado ripped through Frankton on the western outskirts of Hamilton shortly before midday. Three people were killed and about 80 injured of which five were admitted to hospital. During the ten minutes it took for the tornado to cut a path 100 […]

The Krakatoa Eruption which is part of the ring of fire, affected the entire world for years. Here are the basic facts and findings I have found, that you might find interesting about this disastrous event in history. Although this eruption started 100 days beforehand, in May 1883, at around 1.06pm on the 26th of

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 day, we remember the 140,000+ people that lost their lives and the families it affected forever. Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, also called Great Kanto earthquake. An Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The death toll from the temblor was estimated to

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

On this day we remember the 43 miners that were killed in a shocking accident. At 7.20 a.m. an explosion at Ralph’s mine on Raynor Rd rocked Huntly. Fortunately, it was a Saturday and only 60 men were at work instead of the weekday shift of 250. The explosion was caused by a miner’s naked

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.

Today in Disaster history. On this 19th Day of September 1985, at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximal Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people. The energy released during the main event was