'Christchurch Earthquake February of 2011'

'The Christchurch seism - order 6.3 - which occurred on February twenty-second, 2011, was champion of the near destructive quakes of whole time recorded in New Zealand in terms of pervert and also one of the most inglorious in terms of death toll, causation 185 deaths. The February Christchurch temblor caused general damage, forcing the demolition of numerous buildings in the Christchurch CBD, such as the luxe Chancellor Hotel and the Christchurch Cathedral, which were the far-famed icons of the city. But why was this temblor so destructive compared to the even off more coarse order of magnitude 7.1 magnitude that defecate Christchurch on September 4 2010? What caused the shortcoming to shatter? These questions I allow be respond later in the report.\nOn February 22nd 2011 there were 2 modest temblors magnitude 3.2 and 2.3 in the quadruplet of 12 hours forward the big 6.3 magnitude quake hit Christchurch on 12:51pm. The timing of the earthquake was very disastrous because it was in the midway of the day. The epicenter of the earthquake was 10 kilometres southeastward of the Christchurch CBD, 2 kilometres westmost of Lyttleton which was a small town southeastern of Christchurch. The focus of the earthquake was 5 kilometres to a lower place the surface which is passing shallow for an earthquake. after(prenominal) the initial 6.3 earthquake aftershocks continued to rattle Christchurch every clarified or so, the come of aftershocks slowly plummeted as the hours progressed. The focus of the earthquake rupturing lead to 2 edges of the fault-line finally freehanded way when the focussing of the faultline reached its capacity and let go of all the energy agonenistic inside the fault-line.\nThe falsehood behind the tragic event that occurred in the February Christchurch earthquake started rearward millions of years ago when the faults near Christchurch were created by tensions between the Australian and Pacific plates at the Alpine fault west of Christchurch. The tensions caused show in the 2 plates fracturing many area... '