List by Date
- 1855 - Wellington Earthquake
- 1863 - HMS Orpheus - Manukau Harbour
- 1879 - Kaitangata Mine - Balclutha
- 1881 - SS Tararua - Southland coast
- 1886 - Mt Tarawera eruption - Central North Island
- 1894 - SS Wairarapa - Great Barrier Island
- 1896 - Brunner Mine - West Coast
- 1902 - SS Elingamite Shipwreck - 3 Kings Island
- 1909 - SS Penguin - Cape Terawhiti, Wellington
- 1914 - Ralph's coal mine - Huntly, Waikato
- 1918 - Influenza epidemic - New Zealand wide
- 1923 - Ongarue Railway accident
- 1929 - Murchison Earthquake
- 1931 - Napier Earthquake - Hawke's Bay
- 1938 - Kopuawhara Floods - Mahia Peninsula
- 1942 - Seacliff Mental Hospital Fire, Dunedin
- 1943 - Hyde Railway Accident - Central Otago
- 1947 - Ballantyne's Fire - Christchurch
- 1948 - Lockheed Electra ZK-AGK Kaka
- 1949 - Lockheed Lodestar ZK-AFE Kereru
- 1953 - Tangiwai Railway accident
- 1963 - Brynderwyns bus accident
- 1963 - DC-3 Skyliner ZK-AYZ Hastings - Kaimai Ranges
- 1967 - Strongman mine, West Coast
- 1968 - Wahine - Wellington Harbour
- 1968 - Cyclone Giselle - New Zealand-wide
- 1968 - Inangahua Earthquake, West Coast
- 1979 - Mt Erebus Plane crash - Antarctica
- 1979 - Landslide - Abbotsford, Dunedin
- 1984 - Southland Floods - Invercargill, Southland
- 1985 - Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - Auckland Harbour
- 1986 - Mikhail Lermontov shipwreck - Marlborough Sounds
- 1987 - Edgecumbe Earthquake, Bay of Plenty
- 1988 - Cyclone Bola - East Coast, North Island
- 1995 - Cave Creek - West Coast