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2011 Christchurch earthquake
An earthquake occurred in
Christchurch
on at 12:51 p.m.
local time
(23:51
UTC
) and registered 6.3 on the
Richter scale
. The earthquake struck the
Canterbury Region
in New Zealand's
South Island
and was centred west of the port town of
Lyttelton
, and south-east of the centre of
Christchurch
, at the time New Zealand's second-most populous city. The earthquake caused widespread damage across Christchurch, killing 185 people in
the nation's second deadliest natural disaster
.
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