A strong earthquake rattled New Zealand at 435 am local time Saturday morning. This was slightly different. The shaking increased in intensity and lasted for what felt like a long time thirty.

I have been in only one earthquake before a minor shake in the UK where a mans leg was injured by a falling chimney. It shook the whole house but wasnt strong enough to break anything.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to our friends in New Zealand today as news comes of a very large earthquake in Christchurch. NZs snivelling PC culture. They are reporting that the earthquake occurred at 435 am.

So what do we know about the earthquake so far. The USGS posted a magnitude of 7.

Widespread damage reported in Christchurch and South Island. 4 Christchurch NZ HERE. Then I turned on the news at 6 am and discovered it was near. Posted on September 4 2010 by KG.

The September 3 2010 South Island New Zealand earthquake occurred as a result of strikeslip faulting within the crust of the Pacific plate near the eastern foothills of the Southern Alps at the western edge of the Canterbury Plains. Got woken up by an earthquake this morning at about 440am.

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The GeoNet Project Monitoring geological hazards in New Zealand. The best source of information is the Geonet site httpwww. nz which puts seismic data online in real time. I wondered where it came from.