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Sharp quake rattles New Zealand city (AP)

October 19th, 2010

A young boy takes advantage of warped road to skateboard on in Paiapoi, 20km south of  Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Christchurch was struck by a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake on Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines and also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - An earthquake rattled the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, cutting power and phone service and sending some residents running into the streets just weeks after…

Sharp quake rattles southern NZ city (AP)

October 18th, 2010

A young boy takes advantage of warped road to skateboard on in Paiapoi, 20km south of  Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Christchurch was struck by a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake on Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines and also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - An earthquake rattled the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, cutting power and phone service and sending some residents running into the streets just weeks after…

Big aftershock freshly damages New Zealand city (AP)

September 8th, 2010

New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key, left, speaks to owner Michael Oakley during a visit to a destroyed potato farm in Darfield as he tours earthquake effected areas near Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Key inspected smashed buildings, cracked roads and spoke to residents near the earthquake epicenter. The weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude quake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and disrupted the central city, though nobody was killed and only two people were seriously injured, which authorities attributed to good building codes and the quake's early-morning timing.  (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - A magnitude-5.1 aftershock hammered New Zealand’s earthquake-hit city of Christchurch on Wednesday morning, freshly damaging buildings, sparking evacuations and prompting the extension of a state of emergency for…