New Zealand
New Zealand — Get Ready
Civil Defence’s Get Ready guidance asks every household to store water and supplies for disruptions such as earthquakes, storms, and outages. Gradual prep beats panic buying.
One calm step today: store at least 9 litres of water per person for three days, then run the simulator in NZ quake mode for the first-hour prompts.
Official advice
Water
Confirmed: at least 9 litres per person for 3 days (≈ 3 L per person per day) for drinking and basic hygiene — Get Ready. Store more for cooking, washing, babies, pets, heat, or illness. Metric.
Emergency number
111 for police, fire, and ambulance — NZ Police: calling emergency 111.
Outage maps (lines companies)
- Vector outages (Auckland)
- Wellington Electricity outages
- Orion outages (Christchurch / central Canterbury)
- Unison outages
- Powerco outages
- WEL Networks outages
Shopping note
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Spelling / units
New Zealand English (colour, metre). Use torch. Metric.
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