October 14, 2019
Earthquake 22 Feb 2011
At 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused severe damage in Christchurch and Lyttelton, killing 185 people and more than 7,000 were injured. There was damage to houses, offices, businesses and land. We watched in the Quake City museum the news footage of the event. It looked really scary. Mum had spoken to me about listening to her with my EARS FULLY SWITCHED ON if an earthquake happened again. I was worried about Grace as she sleeps through fire alarms.
Liquefaction destroyed homes and businesses throughout the city, cliffs collapsed, and falling rocks caused landslides in Christchurch’s hillside suburbs.
This earthquake generated a significant series of its own aftershocks. More than 361 aftershocks occurred in the first week following the 6.3-magnitude earthquake. The largest was a 5.9-magnitude tremor which occurred just under two hours after the main earthquake.
We stayed in the city and to get around we walked, used electric scooters, walking and caught the tram. First we went to Cathedral Square to see the Cathedral.
In Quake City there was collections from the Cathedral.
There was lots of new buildings being built and damaged ones being pulled down. The damaged ones were bordered up with fences.
We rode our electric scooters to the Botanic Gardens. The gardens was a NO GO ZONE FOR SCOOTERS … the scooter started alarming. We parked our scooter and signed off using the app on the phone. We then walked around the gardens there was lots of very old trees.
There was ducklings that Grace and I tried to get close to. Mum said don’t come crying to me when the mother duck PECKS YOU BOTH!!!
We then jumped onto the old tram it was over 100 years old. It was the oldest tram that was still is on the tracks around the city.
The driver let us make the tram go the another direction. We did this by pulling a rope above the tram to change the line.
There was lots of graffiti art on the sides of building walls. The city encouraged lots of art!
There was a big shipping container the container had bits chopped out of it and it said Made in China.
By Finn
