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The chief executive of Statistics New Zealand, Geoff Bascand, announced on 25 February that the national census planned for 8 March 2011 would not take place due to the disruption and displacement of people in the Canterbury region, and the loss of Statistics New Zealand's Christchurch building where census information was to be processed. The ...
2004 Tasman Sea earthquake: 14 March 2005: W of New Zealand: Btw. Taranaki & Tasman: 6.4: 154 km: 40.17°S: 173.63°E: Felt strongly throughout central New Zealand 16 May 2006: L'Esperance Rock: Kermadec Islands: 7.5 [90] 7.4: 150 km: 31.56°S, 179.30°W: Felt in East half of New Zealand 16 May 2006: Raoul Island: Kermadec Islands: 7.1: 33 km ...
1966 Air New Zealand DC-8 crash: air accident 4 Jul 1966: near Auckland Airport: 2 Air New Zealand Flight 4374: air accident 17 Feb 1979: near Auckland Airport: 2 Airwork Flight 23: air accident 3 May 2005: near Stratford: 2 2010 Canterbury earthquake: earthquake 4 Sep 2010: near Darfield: 2 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: earthquake 14 Nov 2016 ...
The March 2011 Sanriku earthquake was a foreshock of the 9.1 earthquake 2 days later. — — 10 [27] China, Yunnan: 5.5 10.0 VII The 2011 Yunnan earthquake damaged 12,000 homes, left 26 people dead and 313 injured. 26 313 11 [28] Japan, Tōhoku Region offshore 9.1 29.0 XI [29]
The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.0 M w earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST (02:20 UTC).It was centred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 mi), [1] about 5 km (3 mi) south-east of Christchurch, [7] which had previously been devastated by a magnitude 6.2 M W earthquake in February 2011.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake [1] occurred on the Port Hills Fault at 12:51 pm on 22 February 2011 local time (23:51 21 February UTC), [1] [2] causing widespread damage and fatalities. The earthquake was centred 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the town of Lyttelton , and 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of the centre of Christchurch , New Zealand's ...
Ruins of the CTV Building, 24 February 2011. The CTV Building was designed and constructed in about 1986. [1] [4] Christchurch City Council gave building consent in September 1986. [5] Building codes for earthquake design changed frequently in New Zealand following the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake (in 1935, 1965, 1976, 1984 and 1992). [6]
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.