A reader has sent in a link to a video which depicts the possible scenario after a large scale (8.2) earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. The Wellington Fault – New Zealand’s “most dangerous geological hazard” link Bearing in mind the disruption that a smaller scale 7.1 earthquake (and…
Today’s Stuff.co.nz is carrying a NZPA article highlighting the plight of a group of Avonside residents who say that, three weeks after the Christchurch 7.1 quake, they feel abandoned by their local council who have left them without basic services. Some say they are living in third world conditions. They feel so aggrieved by the…
According to Keith Lynch writing for The Press police had to call for support from the army in quake stricken Christchurch on Saturday night. A number of people went to extraordinary lengths to enter a cordon that had been set-up at the Manchester St-Hereford St corner: “Senior Sergeant Gordon Spite said police arrested seven people…
Another alleged looter has appeared in court in Christchurch following the 4 Sept earthquake and the media are still having to avoid the use of the word ‘looting.’ It seems that a wheelbarrow has become the tool of choice in these raids: From Stuff: A 51-year-old Christchurch woman has ended up in custody after being…
Two news articles that both managed to carefully avoided the use of the ‘L’ word appeared in The Press and the NZ Herald today, both of them using the term ‘crime spree’. 11 days after the 7.1 quake that destroyed large areas of private housing and it looks like reports of looting are still being…
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