Whilst attention has been mostly focused on the central part of Christchurch city following Saturday’s 7.1 magnitude quake, little has been told (or seen) about the devastation further out of town. Journalists at last seem to have escaped ‘media central’ in the City and travelled further afield to report on the true scale of the…
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…
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…
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…
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