BREAKING NEWS: HUGE EARTHQUAKE HITS CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND

posted by gene on Fri, 2010-09-03 12:24

A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake has just struck Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city with a population of 342,000. There are ongoing shock waves rocking the city.

UPDATE 12:40 PM

Scott Douglas of ChurchChrist tweets:

Reports here of buildings down in downtown Chch. Explosions heard. Chimneys down and cars squashed 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4094979/Huge-earthquake-rocks-Christchurch

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/strong-74-quake-hits-new-zealand-near-christchurch/article1695435/

 

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Comments

On Thu, 2010-09-09 00:32

And no deaths, again showing that Haiti's earthquake was a "natural" disaster only to the same extent that if you were to throw someone off of a building their death would be a result of the "natural" process of gravity.

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