Landslides killed at least two people.\u00a0 In one event, at Muriwai, a slope failure killed a volunteer member of the fire and rescue service, Dave van Zwanenberg, and left another critically injured.\u00a0 The NZ Herald has an excellent article about this landslide<\/a>, and others in the Auckland area.\u00a0 It quotes an old friend of mine, Tim Davies of the University of Canterbury<\/a>, who has noted that the recent events will probably have changed the landslide risk profile of Auckland permanently:<\/p>\n \u201c…the slips this week might have destabilised adjacent areas and made them more likely to fail in future storms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I think this is likely to be correct.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Muriwai landslide event is also explored in an article on Stuff<\/a>.\u00a0 Martin Brook of the School of Environment, University of Auckland<\/a> has noted that the track of the landslide partially coincides with another landslide that occurred in 1965, killing two people.\u00a0 Back in 2013, the same outlet ran a story about this earlier landslide.<\/a>\u00a0 Rather presciently, the 2013 article quotes Kay Allen, a resident of Muriwai at the time of the 1965 landslide, on seeing a small slip in the same area:<\/p>\n “The Mt Somers resident was horrified to see yet another landslide above Domain Cres in Muriwai.<\/em><\/p>\n “I don’t want to see history repeating itself,” Ms Allen says … “We walked down to the slip to have a look – it’s nowhere near as big but it’s in the same place and the ground looks unstable.”<\/em><\/p>\n The Waitemata County Council declared back then that the sections in the path of the slip would never be built on.<\/em><\/p>\n “There are now houses on all those sections,” Ms Allen says, decades later.<\/em><\/p>\n Newstalk has a gallery of photographs of the aftermath of the landslides at Muriwai<\/a>, which includes this aerial image of the site of the fatal failure:-<\/p>\n The aftermath of the landslides at Muriwai. Image by George Heard via Newstalk<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/02\/23_02-NZ-4.jpg\")