About 5 hours ago a 7.1 earthquake hit the South Island of New Zealand, causing massive damage to the Canterbury region, devastating one of our major cities and the outlying small towns.
Two people have been seriously injured from falling masonry but many others have minor cuts, breaks and bruises.
Power and water has been cut to some areas.
The Christchurch Hospital is running on emergency power.
Parts of central Christchurch have been closed and all our radios and TV stations are running live news updates.
They still haven't declared a state of emergency!!
One of many links with breaking news.
My brother lives in Kaiapoi - he should be OK but we haven't heard from him yet - the cell phone system isn't good at the moment.
Robyn