Canterbury Earthquake - Market reaction
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The NZ dollar has tumbled and the stock market has fallen.
The NZ dollar has tumbled and the stock market has fallen.
Amanda Cropp is a Sumner resident.
John Carter is the Minister of Civil Defence.
Bridget Mills is in the Christchurch central city with one of the rescue teams.
Wayne Mapp is the Minister of Defence.
David Neal is the national programmes manager for the Red Cross. The Christchurch Red Cross response team is out with the fire service, searching buildings for people who might be trapped.
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock reports on a briefing by Mayor Bob Parker.
John Townend is a seismologist for GNS; and an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences.
Prime Minister John Key updates the death toll.
Mark Watts works for Telecom.
Rob Clark was on the sixth floor of his office building when the quake struck, and got stuck in gridlock leaving the CBD.
The head of the Christchurch cathedral thinks people visiting the church may have been killed there when the quake hit this afternoon. The Dean of Christchurch, Peter Beck, says they rushed to get as many people out of the Cathedral as they could.
Radio New Zealand reporter Rachel Graham is in Latimer Square.
David Meates is Chief Executive of the Canterbury District Health Board.
John Townend is a seismologist for GNS; and an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences.
Andrew Holden is the Editor of The Press. The Christchurch Press building suffered extreme damge.
Radio New Zealand reporter Rachel Graham is at the triage centre that has been set up in Latimer Square.
Peter Davy is the chief executive of Ports of Lyttleton.
Elizabeth Brayton was in Charteris Bay when quake hit.
Pete Connors is the New Zealand Transport Agency Operations Manager.
Christchurch city councillor Barry Corbett is at Civil Defence headquarters.
Some Christchurch residents were able to get out of the city to stay with relatives.
Roger Sutton works for Orion Energy.
Today was the second day of a meeting of the US New Zealand Partnership Forum.
The fire service in Christhcurch says its resources are stretched.
Monique Oomen is the communciations manager at Christchurch Airport.
Bill English addresses Press at the Beehive.
Peter Cooper is in the suburb of Woolston.
Lydia Ayden is Christchurch City Council's General Manager of Public Affairs.
Jim Palmer says there is significant damage, but it is not as bad as the September 4 earthquake last year.