
Cracked up: Taylor Strowger, 10, from Darfield explores earthquake damage to Highfield Road, 30km west of Christchurch

Destruction: A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 13 miles south of Christchurch after the city was hit by an earthquake

This US Geological Survey (USGS) shows on image of a ShakeMap of the South Island of New Zealand on Friday as an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale struck

The Pacific plate is gradually being pushed beneath the Australian plate, which caused Friday's massive earthquake


A walking bridge just about remains over the Avon River in Avonside, Christchurch. A severely damaged chimney stands on Kilmarnock Street

Rubble-strewn street: Experts said the low number of injuries in the powerful quake reflected the country's strict building codes

A man on a pushbike (R) photographs a damaged building in New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch





New Zealand's last major earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and hit South Island's Fiordland region on July 16, 2009, moving the southern tip of the country 12ins closer to Australia
Credit : Mail Online
Read more article : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1309194/New-Zealand-earthquake-moves-Earths-surface-11ft-right.html
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น