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The Christchurch Fault is an active seismic fault running under the city of Christchurch in the middle of New Zealand's South Island. It runs from an area close to Riccarton , under the Central City , through the eastern suburbs off the coast of New Brighton .
South of New Zealand: 8.2: Felt in the South Island 31 May 1989: Doubtful Sound: Southland: 6.1: 6.4 [34] 23 km: 45.33°S: 166.87°E: Felt in lower South Island 10 February 1990 Lake Tennyson North Canterbury 5.8 5.9 [34] 8 km 42.25°S 172.65°E Felt in upper South Island; widespread landsliding 19 February 1990 Weber Manawatu 5.9 6.2 [34] 23 ...
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 .
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, ... The quake occurred under the Cook Strait dividing New Zealand’s North and South Islands at 7.38pm local time, according to an official ...
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.
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.
RNZAF aerial survey of damage, showing flooding due to soil liquefaction in Christchurch; most of the land in the image was later red-zoned and all structures demolished Severe land damage immediately following the February 2011 earthquake in the suburb of Avondale, part of which was later placed in the red zone (note the bump in the road where soil liquefaction pushed up an underground storm ...
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]