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Published: December 11th 2014
After Akaroa, I went back to Christchurch. It’s the largest city on the South Island of New Zealand with about 350.000 people. The city was hard hit by two earthquakes. One in September 2010 and the other in February 2011. The second earthquake was the worst, since the epicentre was very close the Christchurch and it was just 5km deep. The earthquakes caused major destruction in Christchurch, es...
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D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
Farewell to N.Z.
A beautiful country and you've had a chance to see a good bit of it. Great memories of our time there.