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Damage to main road (SH6) through Inangahua a few days after the earthquake.1968.
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DescriptionDamage to main road (SH6) through Inangahua a few days after the earthquake.
Simon Nathan Collection, Alexander Turnbull LibraryPhotographerSimon NathanDate of Photo1968Map[1] External LinkNational LibraryContributorHeather Newby
Simon Nathan Collection, Alexander Turnbull LibraryPhotographerSimon NathanDate of Photo1968Map[1] External LinkNational LibraryContributorHeather Newby
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Location (city or town)InangahuaEventDamage to main road (SH6) through Inangahua a few days after the earthquake.
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Date Created23rd July 2021CommentsTrish Rennie
Remember it all too clearly....the noise that precedes an earthquake is like no other
Heather Newby
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Trish Rennie yes,, its really scary
Naireen Bass
Trish Rennie yes, my heart still misses a beat when I hear a truck or train in the distance until it becomes recognizable for what it is.
Martin Burt
Nice old jaguar there. MK V11 or 8
Caroline Dunlop
I remember the racket from all the birds and livestock followed by dead silence the the God almighty shaking. When it stopped I said to my husband that that was a big one and went back to sleep!!
Naireen Bass
Caroline Dunlop lucky you I had to go to work at 6am.
Caroline Dunlop
Naireen Bass Can't believe it now after experiencing the Christchurch quakes and the effect they had on me.
Roger O'Regan
Tom Southon's Mk V11 Jaguar there. If you were there you would never forget it. I went home to The Landing the day after to help get the folk's place sorted out.
Marlene Jackson Perry
I heard & felt it coming, in Christchurch!!!!!!!
Diane Allen
I remember this shake I was 5 yrs and my older sister shouting stop shaking the bed. Haha little did either of us know what was really happening.
Joy Meyer
Mine and my sisters bed ended in the middle of the room together. We didn't know what happened.
Andrew John Wilson
My house. Well now my ex's . Red roof.
Adele Willis
Yes I remember….in bed as a young person n wondered why my head hit the wall at the head of my bed‼️‼️
Adele Willis
Lived on Mt Pleasant in Christchurch….
Lynda Dishington
Gosh yes I remember that just a horrible horrible sound thought bed had turned upside down we lived in New Castle Street down the hill and only lost a tomato sauce bottle
Jacqueline Dishington
Lynda Dishington and remember dad running in to Brent's room to grab the mirror off the wall above his head. And no school
Lynda Dishington
Jacqueline Dishington Yes I do best thing was no school don't really remember to much else.
Che Norris
Dad was in bed at the time of that earthquake and he says he never wants to go through that again...
Che Norris
Horrific!
Kerry Wildermoth
Yip all the mirrors on my dutchess swung and mum was saying there goes the preserves. Next minit it stops. Only government vehicles could get through to Reefton lucky the old man had a government landrover.
Paul Bond
I went through there shortly after, in my Mk2, was a little rough. And a river somewhere was partially blocked, due to a landslide.
Jeannie Preddy
I remember the power lines flashing as they hit each other, the sound of breaking Windows and people yelling, a scary time!
Glenys Walton
I have memories of us all trying to get to the front door Jeannie Preddy
Jeannie Preddy
Glenys Walton sure do too. You dear mum crawled up the hallway and hugged us all! X
Michael Welsh
Living in Masterton at the time felt it and heard the window weights in the old villa we were living in banging on the side of the window frames.
Mary Moffitt
We felt it as far away as Invercargill.
Rae Rae
I still have the newspaper that mum kept with all the pictures in
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Will never forget it we were living in Murchison
Robert Scott
I can remember plates falling off shelves in the kitchen, it woke me and my two brothers up. By memory, Dad was just coming out of the mine off night shift ( Dog Watch, they called it ), he arrived home a bit after it. I had to get up and go to deliver the morning paper, it was still dark and very quiet. We got our first television set that day, I think it was a Friday.
Marie Quinn
Dad, Joe Quinn,was yelling at us to stay where we were, while trying to catch his glasses that were bouncing around the floor. He took many of the first photographs of the devastation.
Charmaine Sampson
I was in karamea at time of that earthquake. I was just a todder
Dawn Harris
Remember it well
Rae Amad
Vividly remember that morning !
Terence John Eyles
REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.WE LIVED IN PLASKETT ST. REEFTON AT THE TIME OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
Raylene Cathcart
Didn't a train go off the tracks?
Remember it all too clearly....the noise that precedes an earthquake is like no other
Heather Newby
Author
Admin
Trish Rennie yes,, its really scary
Naireen Bass
Trish Rennie yes, my heart still misses a beat when I hear a truck or train in the distance until it becomes recognizable for what it is.
Martin Burt
Nice old jaguar there. MK V11 or 8
Caroline Dunlop
I remember the racket from all the birds and livestock followed by dead silence the the God almighty shaking. When it stopped I said to my husband that that was a big one and went back to sleep!!
Naireen Bass
Caroline Dunlop lucky you I had to go to work at 6am.
Caroline Dunlop
Naireen Bass Can't believe it now after experiencing the Christchurch quakes and the effect they had on me.
Roger O'Regan
Tom Southon's Mk V11 Jaguar there. If you were there you would never forget it. I went home to The Landing the day after to help get the folk's place sorted out.
Marlene Jackson Perry
I heard & felt it coming, in Christchurch!!!!!!!
Diane Allen
I remember this shake I was 5 yrs and my older sister shouting stop shaking the bed. Haha little did either of us know what was really happening.
Joy Meyer
Mine and my sisters bed ended in the middle of the room together. We didn't know what happened.
Andrew John Wilson
My house. Well now my ex's . Red roof.
Adele Willis
Yes I remember….in bed as a young person n wondered why my head hit the wall at the head of my bed‼️‼️
Adele Willis
Lived on Mt Pleasant in Christchurch….
Lynda Dishington
Gosh yes I remember that just a horrible horrible sound thought bed had turned upside down we lived in New Castle Street down the hill and only lost a tomato sauce bottle
Jacqueline Dishington
Lynda Dishington and remember dad running in to Brent's room to grab the mirror off the wall above his head. And no school
Lynda Dishington
Jacqueline Dishington Yes I do best thing was no school don't really remember to much else.
Che Norris
Dad was in bed at the time of that earthquake and he says he never wants to go through that again...
Che Norris
Horrific!
Kerry Wildermoth
Yip all the mirrors on my dutchess swung and mum was saying there goes the preserves. Next minit it stops. Only government vehicles could get through to Reefton lucky the old man had a government landrover.
Paul Bond
I went through there shortly after, in my Mk2, was a little rough. And a river somewhere was partially blocked, due to a landslide.
Jeannie Preddy
I remember the power lines flashing as they hit each other, the sound of breaking Windows and people yelling, a scary time!
Glenys Walton
I have memories of us all trying to get to the front door Jeannie Preddy
Jeannie Preddy
Glenys Walton sure do too. You dear mum crawled up the hallway and hugged us all! X
Michael Welsh
Living in Masterton at the time felt it and heard the window weights in the old villa we were living in banging on the side of the window frames.
Mary Moffitt
We felt it as far away as Invercargill.
Rae Rae
I still have the newspaper that mum kept with all the pictures in
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Will never forget it we were living in Murchison
Robert Scott
I can remember plates falling off shelves in the kitchen, it woke me and my two brothers up. By memory, Dad was just coming out of the mine off night shift ( Dog Watch, they called it ), he arrived home a bit after it. I had to get up and go to deliver the morning paper, it was still dark and very quiet. We got our first television set that day, I think it was a Friday.
Marie Quinn
Dad, Joe Quinn,was yelling at us to stay where we were, while trying to catch his glasses that were bouncing around the floor. He took many of the first photographs of the devastation.
Charmaine Sampson
I was in karamea at time of that earthquake. I was just a todder
Dawn Harris
Remember it well
Rae Amad
Vividly remember that morning !
Terence John Eyles
REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.WE LIVED IN PLASKETT ST. REEFTON AT THE TIME OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
Raylene Cathcart
Didn't a train go off the tracks?
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West Coast New Zealand History (26th Jul 2021). Damage to main road (SH6) through Inangahua a few days after the earthquake.1968.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 4th Apr 2026 09:51, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/29691