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Thread #131902   Message #2980869
Posted By: Little Robyn
06-Sep-10 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: NZ Major Earthquake Canterbury Sep 2010
Subject: RE: BS: NZ Major Earthquake Canterbury Sep 2010
It's just after midnight (Monday) here and the quakes are still happening.
The latest one was at 11:24pm, magnitude: 5.2, depth:9 km, 20 km south-east of Darfield.
Before that 11:14 pm, magnitude: 3.7, 10 km south-west of Christchurch,
10:21 pm, magnitude: 3.6, 20 km south-west of Christchurch,
9:20 pm, magnitude: 3.5, 20 km south-east of Darfield,
7:28 pm, magnitude: 3.8, 10 km east of Darfield,
7:03 pm, magnitude: 3.7, 10 km north-east of Darfield,
6:19 pm, magnitude: 3.8, 20 km south-east of Darfield.
They've been like that all day!
All around the Christchurch area.
The inner city is still closed to the public while engineers check the buildings and bulldozers knock down the damaged ones.
Business and building owners are allowed in to see what damage they have sustained and the army and police are keeping out rubberneckers or looters.
One street in Kaiapoi has a trench along it and some houses are tipping over or badly cracked, but other streets are OK.
Schools are still closed and the state of emergency has been extended to Wednesday.
And now there's wind and rain passing over the country.
I'm going to bed.
Robyn