Sep 4 2010 - Darfield earthquake damages Canterbury
The magnitude 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake struck early on Saturday morning, and caused significant damage in Christchurch city and the Canterbury region.
Last update March 1, 3:00 pm
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- Please read about this earthquake in our Historic quakes section
Aftershock animation
You can view your own animation of the Darfield sequence, or any set of New Zealand quakes, in Google Earth. You can control the events for selection, the speed of animation, and both area and time of interest. Just go to QuakeSearch, set your search criteria, then select KML output and press submit. The default on the time is just right at the moment to view the Darfield sequence quakes so no other form fields need to be completed, but as days pass you will have to adjust the start date accordingly (N.B. Time are in Universal Time, currently 12 hours behind New Zealand Standard Time).
Or here's one we prepared earlier! It shows the earthquakes from September 3 to the morning of September 9.
If you have Google Earth installed you will be prompted to open the results. You may need to fine tune the animation speed and window size in Google Earth - mouseover the time bar and click on the spanner icon.
