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Wednesday 27 April 2016
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Urban Richmond within taunami zone
Simon Bloomberg
New tsunami evacuation maps released by the Civil Defence this week show that large parts of Richmond and Nelson will need to be “evacuated immediately” if a “long or strong earthquake” hits the region. Online maps have been produced by civil
defence groups around the country to identify evacuation zones in the event of a tsunami. The Nelson Tasman Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group released their map on Wednesday and group controller Roger Ball says “a significant proportion of our urban population” is located within one of the three evacua-
tion zones. The colour-coded map shows red, orange and yellow shore exclusion zones for tsunamis of less than one metre, one to three metres and above three metres. Roger says the map makes it clear a “long or strong” tsunami could affect a lot of people” in Nelson and Tasman.
“The map show that we have a lot of lowlying areas, so potentially there are parts of our coast that would be affected by various kinds of tsunami,” Roger says. “The key message is that people need to think about the risk - if you feel a very large earthquake,
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Anzac Day embraced by Tasman district Simon Bloomberg
RSA members, from second left, Graeme Walker, Terry Richardson and Bruce Thomson with Graeme’s daughter Sandra Westbury, at the Anzac Day service in the War Memorial Gardens in Richmond on Monday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Anzac Day services around Tasman keep getting bigger with over a thousand people gathering in Richmond’s War Memorial Gardens and hundreds attending services in the district’s rural towns. There was standing room only in the War Memorial Gardens with many of the estimated crowd of 1400 spilling onto the adjacent footpath and out onto Cambridge St. Services at Brightwater, Wakefield, Tapawera, Murchison, Mapua and Lake Rotoiti were also popular, leaving Richmond-Waimea RSA president Ross Norgate overwhelmed with emotion. “I don’t know what to say - it’s been absolutely wonderful. We easily have as many people as we had last year.”
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