Christchurch's Hotel Grand Chancellor partially collapsed in the February quake because a "vulnerable'' shear wall supporting a considerable load failed.

Backpackers are still flocking to Christchurch as a must-stop destination, despite the ongoing shaking.

A powerful earthquake has hit waters off western Indonesia, prompting local officials to issue a tsunami warning...

Earthquake linked us with Japan in a year of loss but the scale of the destruction on March 11 was overwhelming

South Island correspondent Jarrod Booker talks to three people afftected by Christchurch's February 22 disaster

February 22: 182 people dead, a cityscape devastated. Kurt Bayer looks back on the months that followed.