THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Christchurch still shaking on Christmas Eve

Christchurch still shaking on Christmas Eve

Wellington - Christchurch was still shaking on Christmas Eve, with seismologists logging 13 sizeable earthquakes overnight, hours after the shattered city in New Zealand was rocked by a swarm of massive tremors.

The largest, of magnitude-5.1, struck at 6.37 am Saturday (1737 GMT Friday).
Mayor Bob Parker said, however, that damage to the city, already devastated by a series of quakes over the last 16 months, appeared to be minimal.
Parker was quoted by Radio New Zealand as saying that while many buildings had still to be checked, "the city has largely held up."
Nine shakes in three-and-a-half hours, including a magnitude-6, on Friday brought down buildings already damaged by a series of devastating tremors, cut power supplies, blocked streets with mud floods and toppled rocks from suburban hillsides.
Police Inspector John Price, however, issued a statement saying the city had "again proved resilient.
"Fortunately, there have been no reports of serious or widespread damage or injury. No fatalities resulting from the aftershocks have been reported."//DPA
 

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