In this image made from video run by New Zealand's TV3, an injured person is carried on a street in Christchurch, New Zealand Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the city.

New Zealand's quake-ravaged Christchurch city was struck by a strong earthquake causing further damage after a strong quake hit the city last year, local media reported on Tuesday. The quake was ...

A magnitude 6.3 New Zealand earthquake destroyed local landmarks and killed 65, according to local reports. A nearby magnitude 7.0 earthquake in September 2010 killed none.

Christchurch, New Zealand, ... Since that magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit New Zealand on Feb. 22, ... Each also sits on the edge of a huge tectonic plate boundary.

On the fault This week the New Zealand city of Christchurch felt the force of a 6.3-magnitude earthquake . The quake came just five months after an even larger one struck 40 kilometres west of ...

The terribly destructive earthquake that just hit Christchurch, New Zealand, was only a moderate 6.3 magnitude, but had certain characteristics that offer an important lesson to cities up and down ...

Reuters reports there are normally more than 14,000 earthquakes a year in New Zealand, of which ~20 are over 5.0 in magnitude. The country sits between the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic ...

Upper-plate earthquakes caused uplift along New Zealand's Northern Hikurangi Margin. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 01 / 200128114613.htm ...

New Zealand's been hit by another deadly earthquake, the second in just six months. The city of Christchurch was struck last week, killing more than a hundred people and injuring many others.

The terribly destructive earthquake that just hit Christchurch, New Zealand, was only a moderate 6.3 magnitude, but had certain characteristics that offer an important lesson to cities up and down ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 65 people in what is now the second-deadliest earthquake in the country's history.

I went to New Zealand on a long-planned vacation to see the setting for “The Lord of the Rings” movies and the mountain scenery. But as the earthquake reporter for the Los Angeles Times, I had ...