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Hard copy of the July 2012 Christchurch Central Recovery Plan. The Christchurch Central Recovery Plan, often referred to as the Blueprint, is the plan developed by the Fifth National Government of New Zealand for the recovery of the Christchurch Central City from a series of earthquakes, in particular the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The Christchurch Recovery Map, also known as eq.org.nz, was a short-lived website providing crowdsourced information about the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The site aggregated information via email, tweets with an #eqnz hashtag , SMS and a locally hosted web form .
GeoNet also forecasts earthquake aftershocks for major earthquakes, such as the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. [3] The GeoNet app sends notifications about natural hazards to its users. An example of this is the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, where the app had sent a total of over 109 million notifications within two days. [ 4 ]
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The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the seismic event occurred less than a couple miles northwest of Chesapeake, a village with a population of 730 people over 130 miles from Columbus ...
New Zealand Army soldiers manning the red zone cordon on 23 February 2011 at the Hagley Park end of Armagh Street. The Central City Red Zone, also known as the CBD Red Zone, was a public exclusion zone in the Christchurch Central City implemented after the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
An earthquake occurred in Christchurch on 14 February 2016 at 1:13 p.m. local time (00:13 UTC) and initially recorded as 5.9 [4] on the Richter scale, but subsequently reviewed as 5.7. [5] Often referred to as the Valentine's Day earthquake , it was centred in the sea off New Brighton at a depth of 15 kilometres (9.3 mi). [ 4 ]
Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater are listed, except for a few that had a moderate impact. Aftershocks are not included, unless they were of great significance or contributed to a death toll, such as the M 6.3 2011 Christchurch earthquake and the M 7.3 aftershock to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.