Links
- Mining accidents
- Natural hazards and disasters
- Shipwrecks
- New Zealand disasters map and timeline
- New Zealand disasters online memorial site run by Christine Clement lists the names of those killed in New Zealand disasters.
- 'The shaky isles' earthquake infographic (Manatū Taonga)
Books
- G. Conly & G. Stewart, Tragedy on the track: Tangiwai and other New Zealand railway accidents, Grantham House, Wellington, 1986
- C. W. N. Ingram, New Zealand shipwrecks: over 200 years of disasters at sea, 8th rev. ed., Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2007
- N. McCloy, New Zealand disasters: earthquakes, eruptions, wrecks and fires: events that rocked a nation, Whitcoulls, Auckland, 2004
- G. McLean, Full astern! An illustrated history of New Zealand shipwrecks, Grantham House, Wellington, 2007
- J. Melser, New Zealand disasters, Longman Paul, Auckland, 1983
- B. Morris, Darkest days, Wilson and Horton, Auckland, 1987
- M. Wright, Quake: Hawke's Bay 1931, Reed, Auckland, 2001
For an account of pre-European disasters in New Zealand see:
- B. McFadgen, Hostile shores: catastrophic events in prehistoric New Zealand and their impact on Maori coastal communities, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2007
