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…
A curfew will be in place in central Christchurch and Kaiapoi from 7pm today until 7am tomorrow to control looting and civil unrest, the central area will also be cordoned off. Power is slowly being restored to the city, sparking off a number of fires in buildings damaged in the 7.1 quake. The two major…
A page dedicated to today’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Christchurch has been set-up on Wikipedia.com. It is called 2010 Canterbury Earthquake: Most of the damage was concentrated on the area surrounding the epicentre and the nearby city of Christchurch, though there was report of minor damage from as far away as Dunedin, 350 kilometres to…
South Island, still reeling from devastation caused by this morning’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, has been slammed with another disaster this afternoon. Nine people lost their lives and one was injured in a plane crash at Fox Glacier airport. Reports are that the plane burst into flames shortly after takeoff. It’s thought that the plane was…
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