Hero Christchurch earthquake firefighter dies 3 hours ago
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Mark Whittaker helped save students trapped in the collapsed CTV building.
Mark Whittaker helped save students trapped in the collapsed CTV building.
Patrick Gower is back, with the first of his investigations as National Correspondent.
There is a 45 percent chance of aftershocks of magnitude 5 to 5.9.
Within 15 minutes more than 7600 people had reported feeling it.
The original Commonwealth Games venue was destroyed in the earthquake.
Today marks eight years since it struck rocking the region.
"If you're that woman get in touch it would be amazing to put those two together again."
The service will provide access to engineering, legal and wellbeing support.
Earthquake work is drying up, leaving tradies without work.
The magnitude 4.0 quake was 15km east of Christchurch.
Just last week the city was rocked by four small earthquakes.
Matti McEachen was killed by falling masonry in the 2011 earthquake.
In 1978 world-class motorcycle designer John Britten bought a derelict stable block in Christchurch and painstakingly converted it into a home where he raised his family and built his revolutionary V1000 motorbike. The family continued to live there after his death in 1995, but were forced to abandon it when it sustained serious damage during the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. After sitting broken and empty for six years, Isabelle Weston, John's eldest daughter, and her husband Tim undertook to restore and revamp the house with a view to running it as a B&B. The story of their epic project features in the first episode of Grand Designs New Zealand series four, which premieres on TV3, on October 3..