A large and sharp earthquake rattled Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand at 10.07 pm today. The 4.5 magnitude quake was widely felt in the North Island and caused alarm among many people in the city. Fortunately the quake was very short lived and isn’t thought to have caused much damage. It was centred…
We here at E2NZ extend our heartfelt condolences to the people of Canterbury and to those who have lost loved ones and colleagues in today’s quake. The blog will be closed for a while as a mark of respect.
Christchurch’s seismic activity was known about as far back as 1995, as this extract from Environmental and Engineering Geoscience; November 1995; v. 1; no. 4; p. 427-488 demonstrates. Its incredible that housing developments were permitted on areas likely to suffer from liquefaction. It is not surprising that so many homes were damaged in some areas.…
There have been shallow and powerful earthquakes in Christchurch this morning that sent Boxing Day shoppers running for cover, they also caused power outages to around 40,000 premises in the central business district Papanui, St Albans, Fendalton and other parts of the city. The store Ballantyne’s has been damaged with a lot of broken glass…
The Press is reporting that there was a sharp rise in “burglaries” following the quakes that hit Canterbury and Christchurch. Reports of looting (“police staff in the city centre have clamped down on any reports of looting“) have been largely suppressed since the quakes started but it has just been confirmed that there’s been a…
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