Civil Defence has issued a warning to television viewers who may see a 3 News bulletin about a major earthquake destroying Wellington tonight.
The acted bulletin will be part of a TV3 special event titled Aftershock that screens tonight at 8.30pm showing the devastating effects a magnitude 8.2 earthquake would have on New Zealand.
"Do not be confused; it is dramatisation of events but is not the real thing," said Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management director John Hamilton.
"Immediately after a major emergency most local services will not be functioning initially and additional support could take days to get through because of damaged roads, railways, bridges, harbours or airports.
"In those first days people in the affected area will be at their most vulnerable and they will have to rely on each other and the preparations they had made beforehand."
Aftershock will see an 8.2 earthquake hit Wellington that in an instant carves up the motorway, levels a city and turns everyone’s lives upside down. The quake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the lower-lying parts of the city and takes hundreds more lives.
The programme will be followed on Thursday at 9.30pm by Aftershock - Would You Survive?, a documentary looking at how a real Wellington family coped when put through a simulation of surviving on their emergency supplies for three days after an earthquake.
Today is United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction, so as well as the screening of Aftershock on TV3, Civil Defence test sirens will also be broadcast over the Wellington region by a low flying helicopter.
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