Live footage Major Earthquake has hit Christchurch, New Zealand

Christchurch : New Zealand | Dec 23, 2011 at 4:09 AM PST

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christchurch, New Zealand’s second- better city, was addled by a alternation of earthquakes calamity roads, damaging some barrio and banishment admiral to abandon arcade malls two canicule afore Christmas.

No fatalities, austere injuries or boundless accident were appear afterward the temblors, the aboriginal of which addled aloof afore 2 p.m., New Zealand Police said in an e-mailed statement. The antecedent convulsion was consequence 5.8 and was followed by aftershocks including one at about 3:19 p.m. of consequence 5.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey

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