National Crisis Management Centre
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The National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), also known as the Beehive Bunker, is the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 government crisis management
Crisis management
Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens to harm the organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. The study of crisis management originated with the large scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980's.Shrivastava, P....

 command centre situated under the Beehive.

It is designed to withstand earthquakes rated 'Intense' (X) on the Modified Mercalli scale, and is maintained by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management to be always ready for an emergency.

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