Our thoughts are with the long suffering residents of Kaikoura after the township was rocked by yet another strong earthquake. The New Zealand Herald wrote: Geonet reported on its website that the quake was centred at a depth of 17km and located 15km north-east of Kaikoura. Its intensity was described as “strong”. The quake struck…
News site Stuff.co.nz, and associated newspapers, have won an award for their coverage of the Kaikoura earthquake Stuff’s coverage of 2016’s biggest story – November’s 7.8-magnitude Kaikoura earthquake – has been praised at the Canon Media Awards, alongside Fairfax’s deep local and investigative reporting. Awarding the Best Coverage of a Major News Event category, judges…
We’re advising tourists and migrants alike to give Kaikoura a wide berth over the next 18 months or so as the township turns into the NZ equivalent of an Australian “mining camp”. Around 400 workers are due to flood in to the small township (est. pop. 2,080) to start on reconstruction work. “Alcohol fuelled violence…
An Australian expert who was head hunted to lead the (allegedly) $2 billion rebuild of damaged Kaikoura earthquake infrastructure is to quit his job after less than six months. According to the New Zealand Herald Duncan Gibb was hand-picked after the November 14 quake to lead the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) alliance –…
It has been six months since the Kaikoura earthquake but businesses are a long way from recovering in the remote South Island township, and tourism operators are worried because they say that holidaymakers have yet to return. Some Kaikoura businesses are said to be ‘within 6-8 weeks of collapse‘ due to dwindling visitor numbers, according…
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