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It has emerged the seismic assessment that Hutt Hospital relied on for 10 years used a non-standard method that reduced the earthquake effects on a tower block since found to be quake-prone.

By Phil Pennington of RNZ
Hutt Hospital's Heretaunga block is just the latest of many medical facilities around the country deemed at risk of a seismic eve

Hutt Hospital's Heretaunga block is just the latest of many medical facilities around the country deemed at risk of a seismic event.

Documents show the major hospital block about to be shut in Lower Hutt due to earthquake weakness was ruled not earthquake-prone just one year ago.

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