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 A man holds a child in his arms after an earthquake in Christchurch Feb 22, 2011. A strong earthquake killed and trapped people beneath rubble and sparked fires and toppled buildings in New Zealand's second-biggest city of Christchurch on Tuesday. [Photo/Agencies] |
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 At the epicenter, children in the school playground screamed as the earth rattled and cracked. Elderly residents toppled to the floor in the nursing home. Cliff faces fell, spitting truck-sized boulders across lawns and through houses. The massive earthquake flattened office towers and killed at least 240 people in nearby Christchurch on Feb 22, New Zealand's "darkest day." |
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NZ mourns quake dead with 2 minutes of silence New Zealand held two minutes of silence Tuesday to mourn as many as 240 people killed when a powerful earthquake struck the city of Christchurch exactly one week earlier. Rescue crews still picking through the rubble were among those who stopped work and bowed their heads at 12:51 pm, along with millions of other people across the country.
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New Zealand PM reveals quake support package New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Monday announced details of the government's earthquake support package for Christchurch businesses and workers. Key said the government originally considered a four-week interim package, but decided to make it six-weeks to give it time to come up with a longer-term package.  |
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Chinese rescuers spring into action in NZ A team sent from China began search-and-rescue operations immediately upon arriving on Friday in the center of Christchurch, where an earthquake killed at least 145 people. The Chinese International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR), a unit of 10 experienced rescuers equipped with radar life-detectors, landed in the city at 3:30 pm local time and reached the rescue command center within 20 minutes.
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Japan foreign exchange group trapped in NZ quake The head of a school in Japan says a group of exchange students and their teachers were trapped in a collapsed building after the New Zealand earthquake. Head of the Toyama College of Foreign Languages Hisao Yoshida says a group of 21 students and two teachers were eating lunch in a cafeteria when the quake struck Tuesday. |
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Christchurch to be permanently changed by quake Christchurch has always concealed a deadly secret under its quaint English-style gardens and historic centre of stone buildings and Tuesday's killer earthquake will leave it permanently altered.
 Houses perch on top of a cliff, that suffered land slips during Tuesday's earthquake, in a beach-side suburb of Christchurch Feb 25, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]
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NZ quake sends 30m tons of ice loose from glacier The 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck New Zealand on Tuesday also shook loose 30 million tons of ice from the nation's longest glacier, sending boulders of ice into a nearby lake.
 Tourists on a boat watch an iceberg, broken off from the glacier after Tuesday's earthquake, in the Tasman Lake, 200km southeast of Christchurch in this handout photograph released Feb 23, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]
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 Chinese rescue workers unload materials on their arrival Friday morning in Auckland. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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