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…
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…
Links to some sites with photographs of the Christchurch quake: Twicsy.com searches for eqnz, Christchurch Flickr – The Christchurch Earthquake Crashbang.co.nz Christchurch Earthquake photos updated Sunday 5 Sept 2010 MrsGooding’s Photostream Canterbury earthquake, day 2 A Facebook group “I survived the Christchurch earthquake” has been set up and it is showing a number of photographs…
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