The shortest term of a New Zealand Prime Minister was seven days: Harry Atkinson was appointed on 28 August 1884 and resigned on 3 September 1884, beating the record of his immediate predecessor, Robert Stout, by six days.
Each year some 400 significant earthquakes are recorded in New Zealand, of which roughly 100 are likely to be felt without instruments, but aren't of sufficient importance to warrant public notice. The biggest New Zealand earthquake in historical times was near Wellington on 23 January 1855. It had a magnitude of about 8 on the Richter scale and was felt over about 940,000 sq km, tilting a block of land 50 m wide and 190 km long. In Wellington the uplift was 1.5 m; great stretches of shore became permanently exposed (including what is now the airport). The centre lay along the Wairarapa Fault, whose horizontal movement is estimated to have been at least 12 m compared with about 6 m for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Despite this huge movement, only 12 people died in the quake, because Wellington was still sparsely populated at that stage.
Only one capital city in the world is further south than Wellington, Hobart Tasmania
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