When was the Napier earthquake and what happened to Napier because of it?

Level: Intermediate

For New Zealand information, we recommend Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand. They have a comprehensive entry on the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake including images and biographies. If you scroll down to the bottom of the first page, and click next there are more pages, including personal stories and information about rebuilding Napier.

Christchurch City Libraries' has a good factsheet about the earthquake for kids.

The NZ History website has a page with great links on the earthquake.

Hot tip: If you need more information, try a google search - "hawkes bay earthquake". When searching google, if you put double speech marks " " around your search term, google will search for it as a phrase.  Very handy if you're looking for something in particular and you know the words will be in that order.