Christchurch. See geonet.org.nz for detailed information.
Napier and Hastings.
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The southernmost City is Invercargill, and the southernmost town, Oban in Stewart island.
# Auckland # Wellington # Christchurch # Hamilton # Napier
3rd largest
Paris is the largest city and the capital of France.
Auckland - also new zealands largest city, is called the city of sails.
The largest earthquake on record was a magnitude 9.5 on May 22, 1960. of the coast of Chile. The City of Valdivia was worst hit. The earthquake also generated a tsunami that struck portions of Hawaii, Japan, and Australia.
Auckland, recently enlarged by the amalgamation of several local authorities, is the largest NZ city both by population, and (as a result of the recent amalgamations) and by area.
Wellington
Great Kantō earthquake struck Japan in 1923, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama.
Kanto, Japan, was struck with a devastating earthquake on September 1, 1923.
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On 11 May 1222, at 06:15 in the morning, an earthquake measuring between 7.0 and 7.5 struck south-western Cyprus, near the city of Paphos. No serious damage was reported, but a harbour was flooded after a 2 meter high tsunami struck Cyprus, Egypt, Libya and Turkey.
No, 3/4 live in the North Island, with over a quarter in Auckland (Nz's largest city), and the remaining quarter in the South Island.
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico on 19 September 1985 in the morning at 7:19 local time.
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New Plymouth