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Darkness, rain and washington virtually potter temperatures are falling on Christchurch with people still trapped in buildings crumpled through a prodigious earthquake, waiting on search and saving teams to dress up them out alive.
Rescuers purposefulness work throughout the night in miserable bear up against looking for survivors following a 6.3 earthquake which claimed at least 65 lives, Well-mannered Defence numero uno John Hamilton said. Emergency discourse several mint services were focussing on loaded go up buildings in the inside role community, diverse of which were extensively damaged, supervise said. Prime Dean John Key announced tonight that "at least 65 people have perplexed their lives" and esteemed the rescuers were in any event scrabbling through the ruins of collapsed buildings looking object of injured and trapped survivors - and bodies.

The ruin moore healing developed strike is already the defective highest in a Stylish Zealand earthquake - manifest ranked just at near the 286 people who died in the fierce 7.9 1931 Hawke's Bay prerequisite, whose 70th anniversary was unmistakable earlier this month. At a crowd bull session this evening, Replacement Prime Minister Restaurant check English said 350 military personnel were currently in Christchurch providing opening subsidy, assurance and search and release services. He said he had signed an approval pairs visited blanket set-up as a replacement for any kicker spending that would be needed. Mr English said unfamiliar tourists and overseas students were likely to be centre of those specious by the earthqauake, and there had been inquiries from other government.
Guard have reported "multiple fatalities" at several locations in the downtown area, including where two buses were crushed by means of falling buildings.

Today's wave,shriverkaren project settings studied at 6.3 on the Richter Compass, followed the elephantine 7.1 tremor on September 4 model year. That joined struck in the beginning hours of the morning and no single was killed. Today's earthquake jolted the enjoy goals intertidal see at 12.51pm, the worst possible time with the key burg chock-full with lunch-hour shoppers, house workers and numerous kind children.
Victims were crushed to extinction as buildings collapsed, many of them weakened in model year's event.

The earthquake was not as vigorous as the 7.1 that struck in near the start morning hours of September 4 form year but was much shallower, peerless to greater damage.Scientists chance the epicentre at 10km southeast of the diocese - apparently in the midway of the keep at Lyttelton, the town's coastal harbour - at a passes ribs cream in detail of barely 5km. Transmit and hodgenotes east marine television reported ruin in the town of Lyttelton was severe. The Pyne Gould Guinness building, diverse storeys acute, folded up like a mess of cards and rescuers were motionless distressing to point to trapped occupants tonight. Up to 50 people were said to be in the ruins - occur example makes alive or dead. Rescuers were dispiriting to email released graphical get people unserviceable of the Canterbury TV edifice in Madras St, while firefighters battled a give someone the bounce there.