Audio of Gary Manch's earthquake story
Audio, UC QuakeStudies
Audio of Gary Manch's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Gary Manch's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Ali Watersong's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Brendan Evans's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Mark Buckley's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Serra Kilduff's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Paul Leslie's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Lisa Cardosi's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Bertha Tobias's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
We're joined now by the Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee - who is in Christchurch.
Amidst the damage and disruption of the Canterbury earthquake, spare a thought for the animals.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee flew down to Christchurch from Wellington when he heard about the quakes.
The risk of another large earthquake hitting Christchurch has declined and is getting smaller.
After calls for an inquiry into Christchurch home repairs, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee joins Checkpoint.
Audio of Jacinda Gilligan's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
Audio of Wendy Everyingham's earthquake story, captured by Bettina Evans as part of the Shaken Hearts project.
People have until midnight tonight to lodge a claim with the Earthquake Commission for property damaged in the February Christchurch earthquake.
The Earthquake Commission is expected to face tough questioning when its handling of the Canterbury Earthquakes is reviewed early next year.
The Earthquake Commission has more than doubled its estimate of costs from the Canterbury earthquakes, to 7-point-1 billion dollars.
The tours will allow people to see the earthquake damage closeup for the first time since the earthquake struck in February.
The Earthquake Commission has just two days to settle all of the Canterbury earthquake claims worth less than 15-thousand-dollars.
Insurance company Tower says yesterday's earthquake in North Canterbury will cost it a maximum of just over seven million dollars.
After the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Canterbury on 4 September 2010, most media reports claimed that no lives had been lost. But In fact, this first earthquake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish. University of Canterbury associate professor Annie Potts, along with co-author Donelle Gadenne, wrote Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes, revealing what happened to the animals during and after the series of quakes. Annie Potts will give a public lecture, 'Animals and natural disasters: Learning from recent earthquakes', on Thursday 16 March, 7pm at UC Ilam campus, Christchurch. Register to attend free at: www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucconnect
Christchurch resident James McMullan's house was badly damaged.
Major Angus Mace is from Burnham Military Camp.
Kate Gudsell received an initial death toll in the civil defence bunker in Wellington.
More on our top story now where the Government is offering to buy five thousand of the most badly quake damaged homes in Christchurch.
Helen Gatonyi is the Manager of the Christchurch Tenants Protection Association, whose own office was destroyed in the quake.
Simon Manning is a Wellington funeral director who is part of the funeral industry's disaster response team, which is mobilising in Christchurch.
How will the government pay its estimated $5 billion share of the rebuild of Christchurch?
A stand-alone government department will be vested with the wide ranging powers the Government gave itself after last year's quake, to oversee recovery efforts in Canterbury.