View Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake Map Background. Local time (23:51 utc, 21 february). As per united states geological survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was situated around 100 kms northeast of christchurch, triggering off an alarm of an impending tsunami.
View the latest weather forecasts, maps, news and alerts on yahoo weather. Street view shows christchurch as it was before the devastating earthquakes of 2011 and 2012. A large and shallow earthquake registered by new zealand's geonet as m5.7 hit 15 km east of christchurch, new zealand at 00:13 utc (13:13 'shake map' image:
Welcome to the christchurch google satellite map!
Christchurch was a very shallow earthquake, and that's a reason why the damage was much worse than the earlier one. The earthquake occurred on new zealand's south island, 10km west of christchurch, at 12.51pm on 22nd february 2011 and lasted just 10 seconds. A few miles from epicentre. In february 2011, new zealand was struck by its deadliest quake in modern history.