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2006, 44 minutes

With an almighty crack and rumble followed by a devastating fire, the Hawkes Bay Earthquake of 1931 struck with lethal results. 258 people died and many more were left injured and homeless. A documentary of loss and survival and of lives changed forever told by people who thought their world was ending. 

”Preston has interwoven personal eye-witness accounts of the disaster with stunning archival footage from the time”.