{"id":3100,"date":"2019-06-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:30:21","slug":"evocative-snaps-mark-30-years-since-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/21\/evocative-snaps-mark-30-years-since-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Evocative snaps mark 30 years since quake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nA doctor tending a man seriously wounded on Beaumont Street and a Council worker whose composure amid great adversity belied her young age feature\u00a0among\u00a0stirring images in a Newcaste\u00a0Museum exhibition commemorating the 1989 earthquake.
\nThe Earthquake Then and Now and Again Exhibition, curated in partnership with local designers Headjam, reflects on the 1989 natural disaster that claimed 13 lives and tested the resolve of so many Novocastrians.
\n\"Dr-Warner-inside-(1).jpg\"Dr Garry Warner, 39 when disaster struck, was snapped by the\u00a0Newcastle Herald<\/em>\u00a0that fateful December morning with two other men, desperately awaiting an ambulance, as they cared for a man\u00a0hurt by the collapsed Kent Hotel awning visible in the background.
\n\u201cI raced to Beaumont but the whole street was full of a cloud of dust which made everything difficult to see,\u201d the Cardiologist recalls of his reaction from his Hamilton medical rooms, in a caption to a 2014 photo of himself and\u00a0one of 25\u00a0newspaper pics.
\n\u201cI saw the destruction and my medical training just clicked in. I was providing first aid to the injured man in the photograph who was struck by a piece of The Kent Hotel awning.\u201d
\nCity of Newcastle worker Melissa Dial, a 29-year-old special projects officer at the time, has only realised her own mettle in the decades since she spent two continuous months on the phone dealing with the quake\u2019s aftermath.
\nShe appears on one of those calls in a photograph flanked by policemen not long after the 5.5-degree tremor.
\n\u201cWhen I look at this photo, I immediately feel stress and pressure,\u201d she says of the then-and-now exhibit pic.
\n\"Melissa-Dial-inside-(1).jpg\"\u201cAt first we had a lot of phone calls about missing people \u2026 then the calls started to be about demolitions and building work \u2026 slowly the calls changed to people who were trying to cope with the trauma and stress of what had happened.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t think about it at the time but I was pretty young to be coping with the stress.\u201d
\nThe exhibition, which gained national media attention when first held in 2014, marks the beginning of commemorations across the city for the quake\u2019s 30th anniversary.
\n\u201cThis is a very personal exhibition with members of our city sharing their stories,\u201d Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said.
\n\u201cThe 1989 Earthquake was a defining moment for our city – it shaped us as a resilient but caring city.\u201d
\nPhoto credit: Luke Kellett from Headjam<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A doctor tending a man seriously wounded on Beaumont Street and a Council worker whose composure amid great adversity belied her young age feature\u00a0among\u00a0stirring images in a Newcaste\u00a0Museum exhibition commemorating the 1989 earthquake. The Earthquake Then and Now and Again Exhibition, curated in partnership with local designers Headjam, reflects on the 1989 natural disaster that … Continue reading “Evocative snaps mark 30 years since quake”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}