Six months after a landslide at Mount Maunganui's Beachside Holiday Park claimed six lives, the same slope reactivated over a single July weekend, sending three fresh slips down the hillside in rapid succession. The earth there remains saturated and mobile, a reminder that geological grief does not observe human timelines. As an external review into the original disaster nears its conclusion, the mountain has offered its own unsettling testimony: some wounds in the land do not close — they only wait.
Mt Maunganui landslide reactivates six months after fatal January slip
Six people were killed in the January landslide; the reactivation poses ongoing risk to residents and businesses in the area.