About Shaking Layers data The Shaking Layers Map shows ground shaking models produced from a combination of strong motion measurements and ground motion modelling that estimate the shaking intensity ...

About Shaking Layers data The Shaking Layers Map shows ground shaking models produced from a combination of strong motion measurements and ground motion modelling that estimate the shaking intensity ...

Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.

About Shaking Layers data The Shaking Layers Map shows ground shaking models produced from a combination of strong motion measurements and ground motion modelling that estimate the shaking intensity ...

The city of Christchurch experienced a major earthquake centred south of the city; severe damage and casualties occurred.

About Shaking Layers data The Shaking Layers Map shows ground shaking models produced from a combination of strong motion measurements and ground motion modelling that estimate the shaking intensity ...

Felt earthquake reports are quantified using the New Zealand Modified Mercalli (MM) intensity scale. The MM scale grades the impact of an earthquake on people living on the earth's surface, and so can ...

The city had been comparatively lucky with both the location and timing of the earlier magnitude 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake; the location of this one however - within 10 km of the city and ...