In 1953 a lahar swept away a railway bridge at Tangiwai at the base of the mountain and 151 people were killed when an Auckland-to-Wellington train plunged into a river.
America is reacting sending it's most advanced P-8 anti-submarine planes to the Northern Atlantic region and spending $34 million operating this phase in Iceland where CNN was given exclusive access.
On the night of April 14th when the so called unsinkable ship hit the iceberg that caused it to sink, Titanic was on its maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.