Aerial Video Of NZ’s New Fault Trace

GNS Scientists have posted on YouTube video of the fault line ripped through the NZ landscape by the Christchurch 7.1 magnitude quake. Also from GNS Science – The Wellington Fault

Earthquake Rattles Hawke’s Bay

Hawke’s Bay, scene of one of the most damaging earthquakes to have ever hit New Zealand, has today been rattled by an earthquake measuring 5.2 . The 15km-deep quake was located about 20km southeast of Porangahau at 10.48am. It was felt in the Hawke’s Bay and as far away as Wellington. It followed a smaller …

Australia Updates Travel Advisory For New Zealand

Smart Traveller has issued the following advisory for residents intending to travel to New Zealand, dated Tuesday 7 September 2010. Besides the usual warnings about crime, travel, hazardous road conditions, rail crossings, negligent adventure tourism operators and the inherent risks of those types of activities, the site has been updated to include information about natural…

Bexley Evacuated, Kaiapoi’s Homeless, Aftershock Destroys Buildings In Christchurch

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…

Looters And Bulldozers On The Streets Of Christchurch

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…