6 Sep 2011, Shanghai Daily
New Zealand is to help smaller Pacific countries improve their tsunami precautions, Prime Minister John Key announced Tuesday, 'the government would invest 2.7 million NZ dollars (2.24 million U.S. dollars) over the coming year to upgrade tsunami risk management systems in the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Niue and Tokelau.'..
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
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| Storm | 2004 | 702 | |
| Epidemic | 1999 | 297 | |
| Storm | 1990 | 200 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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