The shock caused considerable damage to buildings in Christchurch city centre and to houses in low-lying suburbs where the underlying soil suffered liquefaction. Apart from the earthquakes ...

A gripping and intimate portrait of how the day of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake unfolded for the trapped, the searchers, the rescuers, the hopeful and the grief-stricken ...

One of the country's largest schools, Burnside High School in Christchurch ... carried out after the Canterbury earthquakes have not identified any cause for concern regarding other campus ...