Date: September 8, 2010
Continent: Oceana
Country: New Zealand
Category: Land Movement Disaster
Sub-category: Earthquake
Description
- 7.0 magnitude earthquake in a rolling motion shook for 40 seconds on September 3
- traffic lights and power were out, gas and water supplies were disrupted
- chimneys and walls of older buildings fell
- Christchurch Airport was closed
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Christchurch was declared in a state of emergency
- damage caused by the earthquake amounts to an estimate of billions of dollars
- Parliament says that Churchchrist needed months to recover
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