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New Zealand remembers 185 who died in quake 10 years ago
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New Zealand remembers 185 who died in quake 10 years ago
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Christchurch Cathedral under repair nearly 10 years after a deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the city Photograph: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images
In the months, then years, after the Christchurch earthquake, it was not Sue Spigel’s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.
What worked was her home high on the hillside above Governors Bay, where Spigel, 74, and her husband, Bob, have lived for 20 years. “It was this place … being here, cocooned from the rest of the agony that was going on, that really helped,” she says, sat with her back to a large window framing bush, sky and sea. Play Video
It took just 25 seconds to change a city of 380,000 people forever.
On 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck New Zealand’s Port Hills, sending a devastating shockwave through the country’s then second-most-populous city, Christchurch.
An earthquake the previous September had weakened buildings and infrastructure, so the 2011 tremor s location, shallow depth and strength caused massive damage.
Immediately, buildings crumbled and collapsed, causing some to catch fire. Among those that fell was the six-storey Canterbury Television building, which housed studios as well as an English language school and medical centre.
The ruins of the Canterbury TV building (left) and the same site (right) nearly 10 years later.
Killer quake: Sir John Key reflects on NZ s darkest day
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Sir John Key was Prime Minister when his hometown, Christchurch, was devastated in the February 22, 2011 earthquake. He was dropped into the still shaking, cracked chaos of New Zealand s darkest day . Ten years on, he reflects on those horrific first 24 hours, and how a rebuilt Garden City could become our own Silicon Valley. Kurt Bayer reports.
The meeting, high on the ninth floor of the Beehive paused to ride out the shaking. Everyone stopped talking, looking at each other. Once it stopped, discussion resumed.
But moments later, Prime Minister John Key s trusty chief of staff Wayne Eagleson stuck his head in the door.
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