Christchurch EQ 2011

• Where did the EQ occur

  On New Zealand’s South Island 10km to the west of Christchurch, Canterbury
• Where is the fault line 


  Through the middle on land
• What tectonic plates 


  Pacific and Australian
• 6.3 on the Richter scale
• What type of plate margin


  Conservative
• the EQ occurred on New Zealand's South Island 10km to the West of Christchurch, Canterbury
• the EQ lasted 10 seconds
• the EQ happened on a conservative plate margin between the Pacific and Australian plate
• the epicentre of the quake was just 2km west of the port town Lyttleton
• it measured 6.3 on the Richter Magnitude scale
• Christchurch is New Zealand's second largest city and suffered extensive damage
• the EQ was only 5km deep
• 6 months earlier on the 4th September 2010 another massive magnitude 7.1 EQ caused significant damage to Christchurch and the central Canterbury region, but with no direct fatalities
• there were many aftershocks (360 in the first week)