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Oceania > New Zealand > Disasters

NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Funds commited to Tsunami aid $37,000,000.00 [15th of 22]
Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid $24,000,000.00 [14th of 22]
Source: OECD, October, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina > International aid response
Has pledged USD 2 million though the Red Cross. This contribution is in addition to the offers the government has already made to send an Urban Search and Rescue Team, a Disaster Victim Identification team or post disaster recovery personnel.
Source: OECD, October 2005
Tsunami > Foreign tourists missing 64 [16th of 37]
Source: Wikipedia, CNN
Tsunami > Foreigners death toll 3 [25th of 34]
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs, Reuters, US State Department, CBC News, http://www.stuff.co.nz/ and CNN
Tsunami > Funds pledged $48,000,000.00 [18th of 37]
Source: BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier
Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public $8,260,000.00 [22nd of 24]
Source: OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > International aid packages
A Royal New Zealand Air Force transport aircraft to work with the RAAF on a relief mission to areas of South-East Asia devastated by tsunamis. $NZ500,000 ($A466,222). Darwin, where the crew would await further instructions.
Source: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > Total aid package $81,660,000.00 [20th of 37]
Source: BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age
Tsunami aid commitments as a percent of pledges 77.9% [7th of 16]
Source: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters

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SOURCES: OECD, October, 2005.; OECD, October 2005; Wikipedia, CNN; BBC, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs, Reuters, US State Department, CBC News, http://www.stuff.co.nz/ and CNN; BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier; OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters; Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters; BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age; OECD, October, 2005.

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