Magnitude Eight Plus: New Zealand's Biggest Earthquake

Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2000. Good used condition.
The biggest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand occurred on 23 January 1855. It was centred in Wellington and the Wairarapa but its impact was far-reaching, north as far as Taranaki and south beyond Nelson and Marlborough. 'Magnitude Eight Plus' tells the exciting - and frightening - story of this extraordinary quake. Based on diaries and anecdotes, the book has all the immediacy of a first-person account.