Notes

First edition published in 1996 as: Earthquakes Includes bibliographical references Swallowing the land - earthquakes before 1840 -- Unsettling years for settlers - Whanganui 1840s, Wellington-Marlborough 1848 -- The big one of 1855 - Wellington-Wairarapa 1855 -- Earthquakes and eruptions - Hawke's Bay 1863, Tarawea 1886, Taupo 1895, Whanganui 1897 -- The shaking spire - Canterbury 1868, 1869, Christchurch 1881, North Canterbury 1888, Cheviot 1901 -- Shudders and swarms - Cape Turnagain 1904, East Cape 1914, Northern Wairarapa 1917, Taupo swarms 1922 -- The earthquake year - Arthur's Pass 1929, Murchison 1929 -- One morning in summer -- Rescues and fires -- Telling the world -- Help from everywhere -- Afterwards -- The terrible thirties - Poverty Bay 1931, Wairoa 1932, Pahiatua 1934 -- Earthquakes in wartime - Southern Wairarapa 1942 -- Whole lotta shakin' goin' on - earthquakes of the 1950s and 1960s -- Chaos on the coast - Inangahua -- A tremour down the line - earthquakes of the 1970s -- The day the earth moved - Edgecumbe 1987 -- Towards the Millennium - Dannevirke 1990, Arthur's Pass 1994, Marlborough 1995 -- South and East - Fiordland 2003, Gisborne 2007, Fiordland 2009 -- Suddenly in September -- February 2011 -- Rescue and recovery