Comments on: Hastings to remember the 1931 earthquake on Sunday morning http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=52249 Wellington news and views Sat, 18 May 2013 06:16:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gary Hind http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=52249&cpage=1#comment-131715 Gary Hind Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:23:37 +0000 http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=52249#comment-131715 As for the main 7.9 event which was devastating by itself, a 7.3 quake jolted the region again 3 years later in 1934. The 1987 Edgecumbe and 2011 Christchurch earthquake both had magnitudes of ’6.3′, just goes to show that it’s not always the greatest magnitudes!

]]>