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About Christchurch

In Christchurch there have been many dangerous earthquakes is the past few years.

Christchurch is located is NewZealand's Canterbury region on it's South Island.

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.

What Is Under Christchurch?

Under Christchurch there is The Greendale Fault. It runs from NZ's South Island all the way to Japan.It is a hidden danger zone but scientists managed to track where is comes from.

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What is under Sydney?

Under Sydney is a massive strong continental plate. Australia is currently sitting on the giant Indo-Australian plate. This is why Australian cities barely get any damage from the Christchurch earthquakes.

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What was the size and impact of the Christchurch earthquakes?

During the quakes 185 people died and lots were injured. The earthquakes racked up 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. The epicentre was 5 kms deep and it struck 20 kms southeast of Christchurch.

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What do faults do?

A fault is a layer of crushed rock that separate blocks of the Earth's crust. When there is an earthquake on one of the faults one block on either side of the fault slips with respect to the other block. Faults can be centimetres to thousands of kilometres long.

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