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Canterbury earthquake can refer to: 1888 North Canterbury earthquake; 1901 Cheviot earthquake that caused building damage in Christchurch. 2010 Canterbury earthquake; 2011 Christchurch earthquake; 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
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. After February 2013, it was officially renamed the CBD Rebuild Zone by government agencies, but remained known as the Red Zone. It gradually shrank in size and ...
Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial. The Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial (Māori: Oi Manawa [1]) is the Crown's official memorial for those killed or seriously injured in the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. It is located on both sides of the Avon River downstream from the Montreal Street bridge. The memorial opened on 22 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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 .
Rapanui (Shag Rock) after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Rapanui (Shag Rock). Before the 2011 earthquakes Shag Rock (also known as Rapanui) is a sea stack that marks the entrance of the Avon Heathcote Estuary near Christchurch, New Zealand. It is a prominent landmark for navigators at sea as well as travelers on the road to Sumner. The rock stands close to the southern shore just above the ...
Radio host Cliff Hughes was in the middle of a live on-air interview when a earthquake began shaking his studio, prompting him to dive under his desk. The 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Jamaica on ...