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Photos: Quake damage across lower North Island
The lower North Island has been shaken by a strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake this afternoon.
The lower North Island has been shaken by a strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake this afternoon.
Earthquake claim fraudsters are still being hunted down almost three years on from the city's devastating quakes.
Seddon has been shaken by another earthquake this morning. The quake measured 3.7 in magnitude and rattled the area at 12.48am this morning, according to GeoNet.
A shallow 4.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled Christchurch this afternoon.
The risk of a supervolcano eruption powerful enough to wipe out civilisation as we know it is far greater than previously thought, a study has found.
Scientists say lights from electrical discharges are a sign of stress at faultlines and can give warning of big shakes
A large magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Southland in the early hours of this morning.
An EQC customer satisfaction survey has been cleared of deliberately excluding thousands of unhappy claimants after an independent review.
A Christchurch couple are not entitled to a "windfall payment" over their red zoned house, according to a judgement released today.
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken Wellington and Seddon this afternoon.
Plastered across posters and T-shirts, inspiring a play, and named by a popular blog site as word of the year, "munted" became the catch-cry amid Christchurch's post-quake devastation.
A zoning review in Christchurch's Port Hills has resulted in 237 properties being reclassified from green zone to red zone, and 33 going from red to green.
A man who lost his wife when the Canterbury Television building collapsed in the February 2011 earthquake is adding his voice to calls for the unkempt site to be tidied.
The Government has been only partially successful in appealing against a landmark High Court decision which ruled the red zone created in the aftermath of Christchurch's earthquakes was illegal.
A false alarm that triggered Whakatane's tsunami warning system last night has prompted fears residents might ignore a genuine alert.
One of the world's leading earthquake scientists has called on New Zealand to adopt cutting-edge technology that could give people as much as 25 seconds' warning.
A 3.7 magnitude earthquake rattled through Christchurch early last night.
A strong earthquake that hit Christchurch overnight has had its magnitude upgraded by GNS Science.
The rate of serious stomach bugs in Christchurch increased 14-fold in the month after the 2011 earthquake, a Canterbury University researcher has found.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck south of Hastings in the early hours of this morning.
A Christchurch couple has returned from a trip to Japan to visit the family of a student they hosted who was killed in the February 2011 earthquake.
A moderately strong earthquake rattled Southland residents early today.
Problems highlighted by the Auditor-General in the way EQC dealt with homeowners affected by the Canterbury earthquakes have already been dealt with, the Government says.
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has rocked central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital and nervous people to run out into the streets.
Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a strong magnitude 4.2 earthquake this morning.