Earlier today we wrote about the Christchurch suburb of Bexley, where up to 90% of houses in the flat area had been damaged in the quake, in one street every house (all of them less than 5 years old and presumably ‘built to code’) may have have to be demolished. The NZ Herald has just…
The NZ Herald is today reporting that a whole street of damaged properties in the suburb of Bexley will have to be demolished after the land beneath them liquefied in during the magnitude 7.1 quake that hit the Christchurch area on 4 Sept 2010. Seabreeze Close, in the suburb of Bexley, yesterday had four diggers…
The brave people of Christchurch are still having to endure large aftershocks following yesterday’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the city and the surrounding area. Along with a photograph of an exhausted family at the Linwood School emergency shelter, Stuff.co.nz ‘s latest news update said: Some of the largest aftershocks since yesterday morning’s 7.1 earthquake…
The residents of Canterbury spent an uneasy night as a string of earthquakes continued overnight and into the this morning. A list of the 30 most recent quakes may be found here Estimates are that around 20% of people’s homes are now uninhabitable and in some areas on the flat 90% had been damaged by…
More sizable earthquakes have struck today along the Pacific Ring of Fire, hours after the 7.1 earthquake hit Christchurch and the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The small Pacific Island of Tonga was rocked by a magnitude 6.1 quake at 8.52pm New Zealand time. (see earthquake.usgs.gov) at a depth of 37.1 kms, approximate 150km south…
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