On 4th Sep 2010, Christchurch - the city of gardens was struck with a power series of tremors. The first earthquake was the most powerful and scary with magnitude 7.1 as recorded on the Richter scale. It rocked the city horribly and teared apart the earth many inches wide. The buildings were collapsed, cars parked on the roadside and/or under the buildings were damaged badly enough to be scrapped. However, luckily and thankfully no one died and only few might have got few injuries.
But that is not what I am going to write about here as there are a number of articles, reports and columns that can be found on this topic. I am just writing this post to share a link that shows the series of earthquakes Christchurch was hit with from 4th Sep onwards within 24 hours. The total earthquakes recorded and counted on that day were 1495 as recorded by this website. This webpage show this series on the map with the location of the earthquake, the magnitude and its impact. On one side it is interesting to see this but actually it was a horrible horrible thing - ask someone who has felt all these shocks within 24 hours' time only.
I have few friends there and it was a relief to know that they were all safe and sound. However I felt sad for the city as I have seen its gorgeousness and just can't imagine to see it turned into a pile of rubble over night. However the caring and loving people of Christchurch will bring its attractiveness back and the city of gardens will continue to be one gorgeous city also known as Ōtautahi.
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