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.…
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
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…
Earlier today were wrote about the massive quake that hit the Christchurch area of South Island New Zealand and of multitude of effects it had on the area. See Massive Earthquake in New Zealand, State of Civil Emergency Declared. People have started to talk about the event on the web, here are some reactions from…
A massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck 30km west of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand at around 4.35am local time. Initial reports are that there are at least two serious casualties but at this stage no one is thought to have died. People have been trapped in some higher buildings and in lifts, a number…
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