Residents of hard hit quake street calling for firmer timeline
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Residents in one of the streets worst affected by the Canterbury earthquake say they're still in the dark about their future.
Residents in one of the streets worst affected by the Canterbury earthquake say they're still in the dark about their future.
Canterbury residents who haven't seen hide nor hair of a Earthquake Commission inspector have been told they might need to make a fresh claim to get noticed.
A series of aftershocks on Boxing Day has rocked Christchurch, hitting businesses hard over the post-Christmas sales.
It's been more than two months since New Zealand braced for a tsunami following a massive earthquake off the coast of Chile.
The earthquake in Canterbury is likely to result in rate rises.
Chief Executive of the Earthquake Commission, Ian Simpson, responds.
The Christchurch City Council has shipped in an extra 200 hundred portable toilets to help those suburbs worst hit by the earthquake.
More than two weeks after the massive earthquake that rocked Canterbury, some living in one of Christchurch's worst hit suburbs are feeling neglected and abandoned.
Some Christchurch residents fear there's a risk to the region's history if headstones damaged by September's 7.1 magnitude earthquake are not repaired.
Some Christchurch residents are angry they will have to wait almost three years before their severely earthquake damaged homes can be repaired.
Emergency grants will be available from tomorrow for Christchurch residents who are no longer able to live in their homes because of earthquake damage.
Thousands of people are being evacuated from the Christchurch city centre with Civil Defence officials saying its simply too dangerous for residents to stay there.
Politicians have praised the courage and resilience shown by Canterbury residents following Saturday's earthquake. MPs from all the parties in Parliament had an opportunity to address the House this afternoon.
Shell shocked residents still picking up the pieces in one of the worst earthquake affected parts of Canterbury, say a looming rates rise to pay for repairs will cripple them.
Sue Holmes, resident of Seabreeze Close in Bexley, which was built on reclaimed land which has liquefied after the Canterbury earthquake; Dr Tom Wilson, lecturer in Hazard and Disaster Management, from the department of Geological Sciences, Canterbury University; and Bob Parker, Mayor of Christchurch.
As if the crumbling ceilings, broken sewage pipes and torn up roads weren't enough for the people of North Christchurch to deal with, now there's a new problem that may be caused by the September earthquake: Mosquitoes. Pines Beach and Kairaki residents say black clouds of mosquitoes are descending on them at dusk and dawn.
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