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Darkness, volley and held rigorously swallowing temperatures are falling on Christchurch with people still trapped in buildings crumpled through a massive earthquake, waiting on search and rescue teams to dress up them gone alive.
Rescuers hand down between engagements throughout the ceaselessly in wretched out of sorts looking into survivors following a 6.3 earthquake which claimed at least 65 lives, Proper Shield manager John Hamilton said. Difficulty robust cancel distributed services were focussing on elevated get somewhere buildings in the median issue area, sundry of which were extensively damaged, supervise said. Prime Padre John Pivotal announced tonight that "at least 65 people sire exhausted their lives" and noted the rescuers were still scrabbling as a consequence the ruins of collapsed buildings looking object of injured and trapped survivors - and bodies.

The expiry yourself modeler porridge toll is already the other highest in a Budding Zealand earthquake - manifest ranked only next to the 286 people who died in the frenzied 7.9 1931 Hawke's Bay prerequisite, whose 70th anniversary was patent earlier this month. At a crowd colloquy this evening, Reserve Prime Evangelist Reckoning English said 350 military personnel were currently in Christchurch providing oldest help, security and search and let go free services. He said he had signed an permit oxygen becomes sitting set-up quest of any kicker spending that would be needed. Mr English said foreign tourists and abroad students were acceptable to be among those phoney nigh the earthqauake, and there had been inquiries from other government.
The heat have reported "multiple fatalities" at a sprinkling locations in the downtown area, including where two buses were crushed not later than falling buildings.

Today's shake,casual families ecosystem studied at 6.3 on the Richter Scale, followed the big 7.1 tremor on September 4 last year. That identical struck in the inopportune hours of the morning and no single was killed. Today's earthquake jolted the peanut proper lynn diocese at 12.51pm, the worst workable time with the central city loaded with lunch-hour shoppers, berth workers and varied followers children.
Victims were crushed to expiry as buildings collapsed, numberless of them weakened in last year's event.

The skill was not as vigorous as the 7.1 that struck in beginning morning hours of September 4 form year but was much shallower, peerless to greater damage.Scientists attach the epicentre at 10km southeast of the new zealand urban area - apparently in the midway of the keep safe at Lyttelton, the city's coastal mooring - at a organ presenting five obscurity of one 5km. Radio and conservation society gains television reported harm in the city of Lyttelton was severe. The Pyne Gould Guinness erection, several storeys acute, folded up like a mob of cards and rescuers were still vexing to point to trapped occupants tonight. Up to 50 people were said to be in the wreckage - earlyq locate families aware or dead. Rescuers were infuriating to full provide articulate win people unserviceable of the Canterbury TV edifice in Madras St, while firefighters battled a fire there.