Canterbury Earthquake - James Thompson
Audio, Radio New Zealand
James Thompson is the Operations Manager for Civil Defence Christchurch.
James Thompson is the Operations Manager for Civil Defence Christchurch.
Bridget Mills is in Latimer Square at a triage centre.
Peter Davy is the chief executive of Ports of Lyttleton.
The fire service in Christhcurch says its resources are stretched.
New research shows the Canterbury earthquakes generated eight million tonnes of waste - forty times what would normally come from local households in a year.
A new plan will see all dangerous earthquake-damaged buildings in Christchurch's Cashel Mall pulled down or made safe by mid-July.
Douglas Marshall is the Civil Defence controller for the Selwyn District.
Labour Party leader Phill Goff has been in Christchurch all day.
Prime Minster John Key gives a statement regarding the Canterbury Earthquake.
Kerry Munro was at his glass factory when the earthquake struck.
Christchurch resident James McMullan's house was badly damaged.
Jackie Shields is a resident of the Burwood suburb in Christchruch.
News breaks of an earthquake causing large amounts of damage in Canterbury.
Orion's chief executive, Roger Sutton outlines the power situation in Christchurch.
This year's census has been cancelled following the Christchurch earthquake.
The NZ dollar has tumbled and the stock market has fallen.
Murray Sherwan is the Chair of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission.
David Meates is Chief Executive of the Canterbury District Health Board.
Lydia Ayden is Christchurch City Council's General Manager of Public Affairs.
Tourism is in for a short, sharp shock as fewer people visit New Zealand after the earthquakes in Japan and Christchurch and Genesis Energy says customers have no one to blame but themselves when electricity prices spiked last Saturday.
Former editor of the Financial Times, and more recently was director general of the Confederation of British Industry, Sir Richard is New Zealand looking at earthquake recovery in Christchurch and to speak about climate change in a business context.
Overlapping claims and general confusion are delaying money payable to New Zealand for damage from the Canterbury earthquakes. The money involved is payable through reinsurance schemes taken out by insurance companies in this country, with firms overseas.
Businesses in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton are demanding urgent action to pull the area out of an economic slump. The seaside town has struggled since the Canterbury Earthquakes, with thousands of people - and customers - leaving the area due to land damage under their homes.
Christchurch Earthquake
Today RNZ's Midday supervising producer, Denise Garland, looks at two brand new podcasts. Collapse is a podcast from Stuff, all about the Christchurch earthquakes in the lead up the to 10th anniversary of the devastating quake on February 22nd. She also looks at NZ Wars - Stories of Tainui from RNZ which over the three episodes covers the war of Waikato in the 1860s, the great war for New Zealand, a defining conflict of New Zealand.
Did his work in the earthquake aftermath sway the voters?
Mary Gordon is the Executive Director of Nursing for the Canterbury DHB.
Vicki Treadell is the British High Commisioner and is in Christchurch now.
Update of the Canterbury Earthquake including the Prime Minister's address to Parliament.
David Meates is the Chief Executive of the Canterbury District Health Board.