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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 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 .
Living on shaky ground: The science and story behind New Zealand's earthquakes. Auckland: Random House (New Zealand). ISBN 978-1-77553-688-8. Michael Upchurch (2021). "He Iwi Rū | Quake Nation: effective interactive data visualisation in the museum". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 32. Te Papa: 135– 151.
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.
Located on the corner of Cashel and Madras Streets in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand. It became one of the symbols of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake after 115 people lost their lives when the building collapsed during the disaster; [3] the deaths made up about 60% of the earthquake's total fatalities.
A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC, 21 February). [2] [10] The M w 6.2 (M L 6.3) earthquake struck the Canterbury region in the South Island, centred 6.7 kilometres (4.2 mi) south-east of the central business district. [11]
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.
The PGC Building (also known as the Pyne Gould Corporation building or PGC House) was a five-story postmodern office building in Christchurch, New Zealand. It became infamously associated with the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, with images of the failed structure and stories of trapped survivors having been widely broadcast. Eighteen people were ...