The Earthquake Commission (EQC) is classifying a large aftershock which rattled Canterbury this morning - the sixth biggest to strike the area since September - as a new event for insurance purposes.

A large aftershock which rattled Canterbury this morning caused stock to fall from shelves and forced some shops to close, but did not cause any significant damage.

There's anger this morning at photos showing council workers tending to a garden in Christchurch's red zone.

Canterbury has a nearly one-in-four chance of another massive earthquake in the next year.

It is hoped that any new building that replaces Lyttelton's Timeball Station can incorporate the iconic building's mechanism.

Demolition companies working in the centre of Christchurch have dismissed suggestions crews should be working seven days a week.

Christchurch residents are being warned about bogus tradespeople casing properties to later burgle.

Three months after the February quake, nothing much has changed for some residents in eastern Christchurch.

People looking for a bargain should be wary of encouraging looters in quake-hit Christchurch.

Murray and Michelle Smith of Cambridge respond to the "end of the world" frenzy created in the US.

US preacher predicts apocalypse starting in New Zealand today but his track record looks shaky.

Public likely to be hesitant about locking up more than $1000 for four years.

Earthquake offenders were "vultures feeding on the corpses of the dead", according to a Christchurch judge.