Natural disasters of the Asia Pacific Region: 2016 NZ Earthquake

These pages pull together the many strands of support that government and councils have provided to help people back to a new normal.

Read about the need for construction needed to rebuild after the 2016 quake.

The impact on nature, the town, and the people was more than what anyone could have imagined. SH1 was closed, the railway line destroyed, commercial crayfishing stopped and the Coastal Pacific train and freight services were cancelled. Businesses that rely on tourism were forced to shut down. Kaikōura’s connection with the outside world was destroyed.