Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Christchurch Earthquake

A week on from the disastrous event and the children in Room 15 have been writing about the events in Christchurch. Take a look at our reports and recounts!

5 comments:

Jethro said...

Last week a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck. It might have been smaller but it did alot more damage. There are about 150 people dead and lots of people missing. the earthquake made a rock crash down on a dairy and squashed a woman. It did more damage because the plates were directly under the city so it was really powerful. The First funeral was yesterday for a five month old baby boy.Schools were closed and kids had to evacuate the buildings. bricks collapsed on cars and buses. I hope all the damage gets cleaned up and fixed.

Trevarn said...

EARTHQUAKE! Last weeks 6.3 magnitude earthquake may have been smaller than Septembers earthquake it only caused more damage because it was in the center of Christchurch as for the other one was not as close and caused not that much damage. Thousends of loved ones from died the chaos and survivers were terrified and were running everywhere like wild beasts!The first funeral was for a five month year old baby that died under the rubble and heaps of people were trapped in buildings and a women was stuck on top of building calling for help and they had to use a crane to get her down but its not as simple as that.If she took just one step the building would be most likely to collapse.So they have to be really careful about how they get her down.Its just absolutly dangerous and everything is a complete disaster in Christchurch.Almost every car in Christchurch is demolished from what i have seen.About 173 people have died so far and about 65 people have been missing so far i suspect they are dead though.Heaps of people are still trapped under the under the great amount of destruction.I feel lucky i was not there at that time but we are still donating money and food and water.I hope the surviers are alright.

By Trevarn Hope.

Ashley Selley said...

The dangerous earthquake.
The earthquake was at 12.51 . It was 5km deep.The earth quake was 6.3. Rocks fall from cliffs and some people were burried under all of the walls and rocks the earth quake caused a lot of damage.

Ashley S

Jonathan said...

The chch crisis Last week there was a terrible earthquake. There was shocking earthquake hearts racing desping screaming people are scared. some people are badly hurt. People are crying for help. Being worried about family members. The earthquake was in the middle of the city. It was 6.3 magnitude.

The fire service has 8 Command Units. Urban Search and Rescue have three teams. 755 buildings need to be demolished. China, Australia, USA, Taiwan and Japan USAR use dogs and special microphones and small cameras.

By Jonathan Godfrey

Unknown said...

I hoppe you are haveing a cool week
end.

BY ERIN