I have wanted to cry since I saw the first news headline. That is very selfish of me, but it is true.
This second earthquake to hit Christchurch is less in magnitude than the September 4th 7.1 magnitude earthquake, but it has been so much more devastating.
There have already been over 4000 aftershocks since the September 4th earthquake. This earthquake was originally pinned as an after shock, but has been suggested it is a completely different earthquake.
It has already become New Zealand's second biggest disaster (the first being the 1931 Hawke’s Bay Earth Quake) having already reported at least 65 deaths, of which only 32 have been named. I was watching the news coverage, which has been on all day since the quake, last night and we were being shown unedited, straight from the camera footage. The footage was showing bodies being recovered from the rubble. The bodies were pulled out, completely covered in a sheet or other covering and then lined up about 50 metres from the scene. It did make me shed a tear.
Due to the overload of injuries, there has become a lack of ambulances, so people have been using their SUV’s to help transport the injured.
It has been said to look like a war zone.
Here are some photos:
There were people in the steeple when it fell from the Christchurch Cathedral.
This building, the Pyne Gould Guiness Building, had the most reported trapped people. One lady survived by clinging for her life on the top floor. She was stuck on top of the collapsed building through some of the aftershocks.
People using their SUV’s as emergency vehicles.
Two buses were crushed.
These images we taken from nzhearld.co.nz and from wikipedia.com
My thoughts and prayers are with any one and every one effected by this horrible tragedy. I pray the coming days are better than the past and current dark days.
1 comment:
Devastating. My prayers are with you.
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