Christchurch Earthquake

On Saturday morning,at 4.00am there was an earthquake in Christchurch, the size of it was seven point one on the Richter scale. It was a complete surprise for the scientists as it wasn’t on a major fault line.

The earthquake hit the city of Canterbury causing extensive damage. Huge cracks in the road opened up Even the beautiful old buildings with bricks and wood,were all tumbling down. Broken sewage and water pipes are causing floods in the streets. Diseases are a real worry . Lots of houses crashed into the ground but luckily the new ones were made to earthquake safe standards so didn’t fall down, only moved because they are more stable. At least 450 houses were destroyed and 100,000 houses were damaged

The dangers of the earthquake are that there will be after shocks for a while,and that’s bad. Glass is still shattering over the ground and could injure people. There is contaminated mud flowing onto the streets which they are taking to the dump.

I feel sorry for the people of Christchurch because all their houses and cars have been destroyed. But some people still have determination to tidy up for them and that’s helpful.