Today, we talk exclusively to the AFFCO meatworker who spent an hour and a half with a meat hook impaled in his head.

COMMENT: Understandably, some Cantabrians are feeling emotionally exhausted and worn out and are finding it hard to cope, writes Hugh Norriss.

It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative's start of university. But the gathering ended in collapsing tragedy.

A Herald investigation into the hidden toll of the Christchurch earthquakes has sparked calls for research into the correlation between suicides and the quakes.

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The 2011 Christchurch earthquake killed 185 people, and NZers vowed never to forget them. But what of those who took their lives in its aftermath?

The forgotten victims of one of the nation's deadliest disasters.

Authorities in Japan have ordered almost 250,000 from their homes following Saturday's 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

A Kiwi couple living in the Japanese city hit by two earthquakes have been huddled in their car with their three young children for the past two nights.

GeoNet said the four tremors were all close to Porangahau at a depth of 20 kilometres or less.

A small earthquake has struck tonight near Chrstchurch.

Two earthquakes struck the South Island late last night.

Cantabrians went to bed a little shaken last night after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck just after 11pm.

A moderate earthquake has rocked the Whanganui region this afternoon.

The traffic signal fault in Christchurch which caused significant delays this morning in the CBD has now been fixed.

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake with a depth of 8km has hit the top of the South Island.

The incredible thing about significant events is that most of us remember what we were doing and where we were when they happened, writes Barry Soper.

New Zealand pays respects on fifth anniversary of Christchurch.

As she lay in the hospital bed, bracing for emergency surgery, Kim Haugh was already petrified. And then the shaking began.

Five years after a shallow, savage earthquake flattened Christchurch, the story of its central business district is a "tale of two cities".

A crowd is gathering at Cathedral Square in Christchurch, ahead of a march to vent frustration at earthquake insurance problems.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near Mt Cook this morning.

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake centred 10km west of Christchurch has shaken a city still reeling from a larger quake last Sunday.

Five years after the 22 February 2011 earthquake in his city of birth, Phil Taylor went back to see how those he met had fared.

They live in a modest "as-is-where-is" place bought with an EQC payment and borrowings but it is not the family home Annette Thomson imagined.

The 17km-deep magnitude 3.8 quake struck 10km east of Christchurch at 8.22pm. More than 500 felt reports have already been submitted to GeoNet.

A new study finds that some people are battling anxiety and depression more than a year and a half after the Christchurch earthquake.

Christchurch has been shaken by a moderate earthquake this evening, just days after the city was rocked by a strong 5.7 magnitude tremor.