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Friday, 4 September 2020

2010 Canterbury Earthquake

4 September 2010 at 4:35 am. You feel a shake rapidly growing. It starts moving furniture, plates and cups start smashing on the ground. What do you do? do you run? or do you hide underneath a table risking your life both ways? 

This is what happened in Christchurch on the 4th of September 4:35am only 1 fatality and 2 serious injuries. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake 11km deep. About 2km away from Darfield but still managed to damage over 25,000 homes which people claimed insurance for which cost $437million.

1 died from a heart attack but it may have happened without the earthquake.  2 serious injuries but over 200 minor.

How would you feel in this situation? Feel free to comment.









1 comment:

  1. We lived in Rolleston at the time and you slept right through. It was a very interesting time with all the aftershocks. You and Hayley would both be sitting on the floor playing and yell out aftershock and continue playing :)

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