{"id":76060,"date":"2026-01-23T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/23\/new-zealand-mount-maunganui-campsite-landslide-witness"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:34:07","slug":"the-sound-of-mayhem-witness-to-new-zealand-landslide-describes-almighty-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76060","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The sound of mayhem\u2019: witness to New Zealand landslide describes \u2018almighty cracking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alister McHardy was going out to fish at sunrise on Thursday, when he noticed a \u2018mountain of soil\u2019 at the north end of the beach at Mount Maunganui<\/p>\n<p>It was the \u201calmighty cracking\u201d that they heard first, an unmistakable deep rumble before the mountain gave way, swallowing up caravans and cars as it collapsed at speed on the campsite below. Aerial images show the aftermath of the landslide that struck New Zealand\u2019s North Island on Thursday \u2013 a massive piece of brown earth gouged out of the green slope, flattened roofs and a few trees sticking out an unnatural angles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost like the air pressure changed. It was a real powerful event,\u201d says local Alister McHardy. \u201cIt just came down, a lot of cracking and people screaming and car alarms going off \u2026 The sounds of mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/23\/new-zealand-mount-maunganui-campsite-landslide-witness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alister McHardy was going out to fish at sunrise on Thursday, when he noticed a \u2018mountain of soil\u2019 at the north end of the beach at Mount MaunganuiIt was the \u201calmighty cracking\u201d that they heard first, an unmistakable deep rumble before the mountain gav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76061,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76060\/revisions\/76061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}