CHRISTCHURCH BUSINESSES MOVE TOWARDS RECOVERY AFTER EARTHQUAKE
April 1st, 2011
BY KARRYN MILLER
ON February 22 New Zealand's second largest city, Christchurch, felt the earth tremble. Still unsettled from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit in September 2010, the country's self-styled garden city was struck by a 6.3 magnitude aftershock that proved to be more damaging than the initial quake.
With an epicentre just underneath central Christchurch, February's aftershock crippled the city's central business district (CBD) as well as its eastern suburbs, killing 181. The estimated cost of the quake stands at New Zealand Dollars NZD30 billion ...
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