Photo Gallery: 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake | Hawkes Bay
Photo Gallery: 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake
Buildings collapsed like cardboard as the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Hawke's Bay at 10:46am on 3 February 1931. At least 258 people died in New Zealand's worst natural disaster, with a population of just 60,000 in Hawke's Bay at the time. Many of these images are hauntingly similar to those of the aftermath of the February 22 2011 earthquake in Christchurch eighty years later. Compiled by Peter Fowler
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