Recently the Canterbury region has had an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. This earthquake is bigger then the one the struck Haiti earlier this year, luckily it struck in the early hours of the morning when most people were in bed. Since then the aftershocks have been the size of earthquakes all on there own they measure from 5.8 to 6.5 on the Richter scale.Although there were no deaths it doesn't mean that the damage wasn't horrific, house foundations have been split in half or they have sunken into the ground by a large amount.
It's amazing that we haven't felt it up here in Nelson.
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