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Individual/Family Newsletter 4: Community ShakeOut Events
This newsheet is the fourth of six and the focus today is
COMMUNITY SHAKEOUT EVENTS
Meet the geoscientist evenings will help you associate the risk of earthquake with the vast scientific background (3 events):
Monday 14 September. Club Buller (between Queen St and Russel St, formerly the Buller Workingmen's Club), Westport, 7.00pm.
Mauri McSaveney and Rob Langridge speaking.
Tuesday 15 September. Kingsgate Hotel, Greymouth, 7.30pm.
Mauri McSaveney and Rob Langridge speaking.
Wednesday 16 September. Beachfront Hotel, Hokitika, 7.30pm.
Mauri McSaveney and Rob Langridge speaking.
Westland
"A day at the beach" (DOC) incorporates some fun 'earthquake' events such as a 'tsurf the tsunami' body boarding display at 4.30pm on Hokitika Beach and a Shake, Rattle and Roll Wild Night at Stumpers, Revell Street from 6.00pm. (Checkout the whitebait realy on Weld Street at 3.30pm too)
Kowhitirangi Valley Earthquake Field Trip, Saturday 19 September 9.30am - 6.00pm, cost $10, contact Westland District Council to book a place (limited to 30).
Chris Manuel
West Coast ShakeOut Coordinator
www.shakeout.org.nz
The information in this e-mail is the opinion of the author, after significant research. If you are making decisions based upon it, please take the time to follow the links and check up on the details that will affect your decision. Copies of this and previous e-mails will be available shortly on the website http://www.shakeout.org.nz, so if you have only just registered you can see what you have missed.
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