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a heart stopping earthquake occurred and 185 people died! it caused major damage and it was one earthquake that you would never forget. the total damage costed 15 million dollars!!! After the earthquake builders started repairing very quickly and before long, buildings were repaired and so were train lines, houses and schools. the surface was also well affected as many cracks were left on the roads and footpaths, these extreme natural disasters can lead to extreme weather events such as typhoons, tsunamis and hurricanes.

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it occurred in the  popular city of Christchurch in the stormy new Zealand. Christchurch is known to have been through the worst of New Zealand's earthquakes

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on the 22 of February, at 12:51pm when everybody is wide awake the horrifying earthquake raged out upon Christchurch.

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the terrible earthquake was 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. this is one of the highest magnitude earthquakes on the New Zealand Richter scale ever recorded!

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many people were affected as 163 were badly injured and 185 died a horrible death.many others were hurt but not as severe as many unlucky people. animals were not unharmed as a few zoo animals died and many wild ones to. Injured pets were treated immediately and whatever injured wild ones were found would be treated as well.(except for the ones that are bad for the environment and dangerous ones)

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the damage was as devastating as kiwi devastating can get with a big magnitude and some buildings that fell down, train lines cancelled, busses stopped and cars were destroyed. no one could expect something like that to happen.

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there are many ways this earthquake could of occurred but most people believe that the pacific and the Australian tectonic plates converged and he Australian went on top of the pacific.(only a little)since the Australian tectonic plate is closer to New Zealand than it is to Australia it would effect New Zealand and not Australia.