Episode 4 of 4
Casualties in Wairarapa
- When
- 23 January 1855
- Where
- Wairarapa
At least four people, possibly up to eight, died in the Wairarapa during the earthquake.
Reports identify at least four deaths in the Wairarapa. A bridge over the Hutt River was wrecked. The legacy claim of five to nine deaths is not directly supported by the specific passage citing four to eight.
Sources
- 1855 Wairarapa earthquake Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-11
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.