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The earthquake was the most damaging in a year-long earthquake swarm affecting the Christchurch area. It was followed by a large aftershock on 13 June (which caused considerable additional damage) and a series of large shocks on 23 December 2011.
Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater are listed, except for a few that had a moderate impact. Aftershocks are not included, unless they were of great significance or contributed to a death toll, such as the M 6.3 2011 Christchurch earthquake and the M 7.3 aftershock to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, just one day after a devastating cyclone forced a state of emergency across much of the country.. The quake occurred under the Cook Strait ...
On 13 June 2011 a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch at a depth of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi). It was preceded by a magnitude 5.6 [42] tremor, and affected many structures previously damaged by other earthquakes. The earthquake injured a total of 46 people, while many others were evacuated from the city centre. [43]
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.
GeoNet also forecasts earthquake aftershocks for major earthquakes, such as the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. [3] The GeoNet app sends notifications about natural hazards to its users. An example of this is the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, where the app had sent a total of over 109 million notifications within two days. [ 4 ]
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 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.