Not to be outdone by the tremblors rumbling around the South Island, the North Island too has experienced a number of sizable earthquakes in recent days. Most noticably a 5.4 that rocked Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay on Friday 25 March and a magnitude 4.5 that hit 70 km NE of Whakatane just after 5am this…
A very shallow 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Mount Cook area just before noon today. The quake was felt as at *Fox Glacier, in Christchurch and as far north as Waikanae in the North Island. *The 22 February that hit Christchurch last caused 30 million tonnes of ice to fall from the Tasman Glacier, 200…
Geonet quake drums are showing that a magnitude 5.4 earthquake has rocked Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay this evening. Felt reports may be viewed here as they come in Reference Number: 3485333 NZDT: Fri, Mar 25 2011 9:39 pm Magnitude: 5.4 Depth: 60 km Details: 10 km north-west of Tokomaru Bay Its looking quite large on…
Further details have emerged of the sickening attack on a 15 year old Wanganui Girl’s College student, Robin de Jong, that we reported on on 20 March. See Another School Attack Hospitalises Student Video of the assault shows another pupil of Wanganui Girl’s College pushing her victim to the ground, kicking her in the back…
In the last few days we’ve been blogging about bullying, a culture of brutality, assaults on children and the controversial ‘anti-smacking’ legislation in supposedly child friendly New Zealand. In the blog about a father being acquitted of child brutality (despite his admission that he’d tied his son by his wrist and then by his neck,…
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