Some interesting info...A massive earthquake caused the ground...

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    Some interesting info...


    A massive earthquake caused the ground beneath the New Zealand city of Christchurch to shift up to 11 feet.

    The magnitude 7.1 quake on Friday night in New Zealand was larger than the one that killed 200,000 people in Haiti this year and appeared to have opened a new fault line.

    Mark Quigley, a geology professor leading a team investigating the cause of the quake, said: "One side of the earth has lurched to the right."


    New Zealand sits above an area where two tectonic plates collide. The country records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year - but only about 150 are felt by residents. Fewer than 10 a year do any damage.


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/7982946/New-Zealand-earthquake-ground-moved-by-11ft.html










 
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