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Edgecumbe was so badly hit because the ground is bolow sea level sol the earthquake is stronger in the Edgecumb then anywhere else in New Zealand.

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The earthquake made a whole throw the ground about 2-3 meters Deep in the ground

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One person died in the quake because of a heart attack

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The largest aftershock was measured 5.5and happened at 1.52pm

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3000 people were moved out from south of the Matahina hydro dam in case it gave way.

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An 80 tonne train toppled over because of the force of the quake

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Some rescuers had to evacuate 40 houses because they were under an unstable hill

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One man was thrown over the rail of a catwalk to the concrete floor 3 metres below. Another was trapped under 11 huge circular saws, each of them 2 metres in diameter. Following the main shock, an engineer checking for structural damage fell 5 metres from a platform.

One woman was hurt by a falling piano in her home, and another was hit by a bull thrown out of its pen at a stock yard.

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There is was a wall that stopped all the water coming into Edgecumbe since the earthquake made Edgecombe under sea water. The wall was later Brocken and Edgecumbe flooded

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No one was killed in the quake

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Green = Aiden
Blue = Hamish
Yellow = Ollie S
Sam A = Purple
Sam C = Red

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They dropped below ground level, 2 metres

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There was a pre-shock 7 minutes before the major quake. This was the only warning they had

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In Edgecumbe the intensity of the shaking cracked asphalt in roads and footpaths, damaged river embankments, toppled a locomotive and tore large power transformers, weighing up to 20 tonnes each, from their mountings

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This used to be straight

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Ron Russell was manager of the Edgecumbe dairy factory in 1987. describes watching these huge milk storage silos being shaken down.

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It was NZ’s worst Earthquake for 40 years

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25 people were injured and 1 died later because of a heart attack
1 person was surverally injured as a piano fell on him

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126 quakes including before shocks and after shocks

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There was a swarm of little earthquakes after the big one

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The Rangitaiki River, In Edgecumbe stopped flowing for about 10 seconds, then came pouring back.

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Edgecumbe is below sea level so is prone to major flooding

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The area widened about 1.2 metres

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The rescuers didn’t think of long term affects that the earthquake would cause and didn’t think that Edgecumbe would be prone to floodings  like the 2004 and 2017 floodings

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Before the quake these stumps of trees were underwater

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There were indications that the first rupture propagated towards the south-west, triggering a second rupture 9 kilometres to the south-west and three seconds after the first. There is also the possibility of a third, signicantly smaller, rupture another ten seconds later. The largest aftershock measured 5.6 and struck nine minutes later at 1.51 pm

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The things that I would do the same as the rescuers did is I would evacuate people in dangerous positions just like the rescuers did when there was an unstable hill above Kawerau. They had to evacuate 40 houses.

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The earthquake was 8km deep

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25 people suffered injuries that needed medical attention but nobody was killed. The before shock happened seven minutes before the main shock had cut the power supply, and many people had moved away from heavy machinery and out of buildings that then collapsed in the main earthquake. The only person that died had a heart attack caused by the shockwaves of the Earthquakes. The cost of the damage was 300 million dollars. 50% of the houses were damaged.

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The 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake measured 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale and struck the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand at 1:42 pm on 2 March.