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Earthquake work is drying up, leaving tradies without work.
Earthquake work is drying up, leaving tradies without work.
The organisation had to hire over 1000 new staff members to manage the claims.
This week marks 10 years since the start of the Canterbury earthquakes.
The magnitude 7.1 struck at 4:34am on September 4, 2010.
Over 1000 people have reported feeling the earthquake.
EQC has reopened over 600 claims for defective foundation repairs in 12 months.
Friday marks a decade since the disaster.
A statue of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott was broken in the earthquake.
Their dream home is showing signs of shoddy earthquake repairs.
Seventy Canterbury homeowners have found unreported damage.
The office block pancaked in the Christchurch quake, killing 115 people.
"There are major faults in low-seismicity areas that could produce a major event."
Matti McEachen was killed by falling masonry in the 2011 earthquake.
GeoNet has classified the shaking as "light".
The chief medical officer for Te Aka Whaiora said lessons had been learnt from the Christchurch earthquakes.
"There's still a lot of holes and a lot of carparks."
Christchurch Cathedral Square held its first Anzac Day dawn service since the earthquakes.
The opening of the Christchurch City and Sumner stations marks the end of a multi-million-dollar earthquake rebuild programme.
Earthquake-prone is an official classification of buildings under 34 percent of new building standards.
Almost 1 million artefacts were discovered in a 'big dig' after the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.