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A recent survey shows only one in 10 Kiwis are fully prepared to
handle a natural disaster.
Year after year of advertising campaigns do not seem to be working
to change New Zealanders' complacency.
Twenty-three percent are prepared at home for disaster and only
42% of people think they even need a plan.
There have been two big earthquakes in the Pacific in the past 24
hours, with one near Samoa measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale.
While there was no damage, Civil Defence officials returned from
Samoa say Kiwis still underestimate how at risk they are in New
Zealand.
Civil Defence director John Hamilton says New Zealand culture tends to have the tendency of "she'll be right".
"That indicates we've got a lot of work to do generating better and better levels of awareness."
