COMMENT: On the morning of Monday November 14, 2016, the best little city in the world got ripped apart.

Lying on the ground next to Kaikoura Highschool's gymnasium wall was a pile of fractured concret bricks.

The Defence Force has now evacuated more than 800 people from Kaikoura.

A Civil Defence overhaul is inevitable following confusion over tsunami warnings after Monday's earthquake, the Government says.

Earthquake experts have looked at scenarios for both the capital and Auckland. They've crunched the numbers, finding potentially catastrophic scenarios.

BNZ's Harbour Quays building won't reopen for months following damage to CentrePort in the 7.8 earthquake.

A petition against Destiny Church's tax-free status is gaining momentum - with 102,000 signatures and climbing.

Power, water and road access is slowly being restored to earthquake-hit areas of the South Island as crews work around the clock.

Science reporter Jamie Morton talks to GNS Science earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge, who has been on the ground mapping damage around Marlborough.

There are going to be a lot of fit office workers in Wellington with the city's 2500 needing surveying.

The escalation of the Kaikoura Earthquake in magnitude from 7.5 to 7.8 now puts its power on a par with the equivalent energy release of 400 atomic bombs detonating.

Civil Defence is warning that a 150m high dam is at risk of failure after heavy rain.

Parts of CentrePort have been reopened and are ready for business while preliminary assessment on Statistics House begins.

Ten months after the destructive February 2011 earthquake, an independent review of the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management's response was undertaken.

The landscape around Kaikoura has been forever changed and is all too clear from above

Comments by Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki outrage rainbow community advocate and human rights commissioner.

Geotechnical engineers face an "unprecedented" challenge in tackling the many large landslides that have blocked quake-damaged Kaikoura's coastal State Highway 1.

The PM and Kaikoura's mayor have dismissed Brain Tamaki's comments blaming the devastating earthquakes on "gays, murderers and sinners".

What's it like to be part of the team at GNS Science when a big quake hits? Seismologist Dr Helen Anderson shares an insight.

Elderly residents of a retirement village in the upmarket suburb of Khandallah are among those who have been evacuated.

Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki has blamed earthquakes on gays, sinners, and murderers.

Join Bernadine Oliver-Kerby as she talks to political reporter Isaac Davison in Wellington. A big part of Wellington’s CBD is in a holding pattern at the moment after Monday’s quake.

The latest earthquake again prompted reports of animals behaving strangely just before the main shock hit. What does science say?

It appears our volcanoes have slept through the Kaikoura quake, with monitoring equipment showing only a few tremors over recent days.

We speak to Red Cross spokesman Gemma Snowdon about how we can help with the earth quake relief.

As Canterbury Civil Defence declared a region-wide state of emergency, people from around South Island banned together to support those affected by quake.

Source: Facebook: NZ Farming.

Join Bernadine Oliver-Kerby as she talks to Sir Bob Parker, former mayor of Christchurch. Few know the massive task of rebuilding and simply coping with a disaster of this magnitude than Sir Parker who was mayor during devastating quakes of 2011 and 2012.