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Northland tsunami alert: How the region's response went and what can be done better

Northland tsunami alert: How the region's response went and what can be done better
12 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
8 minutes to read
An aerial shot shows the surge from last Friday's tsunami alert going into Tutukaka. Photo / Supplied
An aerial shot shows the surge from last Friday's tsunami alert going into Tutukaka. Photo / Supplied
Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
Just over a week on from last Friday's tsunami evacuation alert for Northland, Susan Botting took a comprehensive look at how we handled it and what we can do better.
Northland's regional tsunami evacuation on March 5 was the biggest in New Zealand with tens of thousands shifting to higher ground along 3200 kilometres of coastline.

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Killer quake: Sir John Key reflects on NZ's "darkest day"

Killer quake: Sir John Key reflects on NZ's "darkest day"
13 minutes to read
Sir John Key was Prime Minister when his hometown, Christchurch, was devastated in the February 22, 2011 earthquake. He was dropped into the still shaking, cracked chaos of "New Zealand's darkest day". Ten years on,
he reflects on those horrific first 24 hours, and how a rebuilt Garden City could become our own Silicon Valley. Kurt Bayer reports.
The meeting, high on the ninth floor of the Beehive paused to ride out the shaking. Everyone stopped talking, looking at each other. Once it stopped, discussion resumed.
But moments later, Prime Minister John Key's trusty chief of staff Wayne Eagleson stuck his head in the door.

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