Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
tuesday 15 november 2016
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Nelson shaken, but damage is minor Nelson Haven’s gun abutment crumbled in Monday’s earthquake. Photo: Kate Russell.
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jor damage reported in Marlborough, Wellington and Canterbury. Two people killed as a result of the quake. The earthquake struck at 12.02am on Monday morning, waking many up in Nelson and cutting power to about 8000 customers for a short time. Fire crews, an urban search and rescue squad and St John Ambulance staff from Nelson
Interruptions to NCEA exams, broken wine bottles and many frayed nerves seem to be the major casualties of Monday morning’s “severe” earthquake in Nelson. The 7.5 magnitude quake was centred in north Canterbury and wasn’t so kind to other parts of the country, with ma-
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and Tasman were among first responders after the earthquake devastated the small upper South Island towns of Kaikoura, Hanmer Springs, Seddon, Ward and Waiau. The Nelson Fire Service and St John Ambulance were the first to head to Blenheim leaving soon after the first earthquake struck shortly after midnight. They were followed
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by the Nelson Taman Civil Defence Emergency Management Group’s specialist rescue team, the New Zealand Response Team 2 (RT2). The RT2 team consists of up to 24 volunteers who specialise in urban search and rescue and Civil Defence spokesperson Alec Louverdis says they left for Blenheim at about 9am. “We’ve had requests from
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