speech

In early February 1931, the bright burning sun arose above the Marine Parade horizone in Napier to signify the start of a new day. Eagerly, school children got dressed into their clean, crisp uniforms, put their satchel on the shoulder and walked or biked to school. As the children sat on the mat, they felt a violent shake, the ground began to quiver. “Get under cover, protect your head, and hold on,” would’ve been yelled out by the teacher. An earthquake had occurred.

The 1931 an earthquake struck all of Napier and marine parade at 10.47 am in the morning. There were 256 killed and there were thousands injured and that would have been really bad and painful. After the earthquake had finished, there were 525 aftershocks. But I bet that the aftershocks would have been pretty bad and more would have got killed and injured. When the earthquake started it was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake and that probably why there were heaps of buildings destroyed and people got killed and badly injured.

So, what do you do when an earthquake occurs? Drop, cover, and hold.

After the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in 1931 there would have been heaps of buildings destroyed and that hospital in napier would have been destroyed or court on fire. When the earthquake was happening I do not know how much buildings were destroyed and how much court on fire but I think there would have been a lot of them that got destroyed and court on fire. But thankfully I was not in that 1931 earthquake because I probably would have got killed.

After the aftershocks had done there was nothing after that. But thank you everyone for listening to my speech the end.