Earthquake in New Zealand

6.4 magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand’s second largest City Christchurch and it devastated the City leaving 65 instant dead. Life is so uncertain; death is so near and so close to the mankind. All the hopes and dreams stopped instantly by the shake.

Only five months ago another earthquake hit New Zealand but with less casualties.

We can remind the major earthquakes in the earth:

1960, 22 May Valdicvia, Chile , Mag-9.5 fatalities-20,000

2004, 26 December Sumatra, Indonesia, Mag-9.3, causalities-300000

1964, 27 March, Alaska , Mag-9.2

1952, Kamchatka, Equador, Mag-9.0

1906, Mag-8.8



Major earthquakes in Map:



New Zealand earthquake in Pictures:



Man has nothing to do to handle this kind of major natural disaster. People are still helpless to the nature’s behavior.


So it looks like one big earthquake is enough to destroy this beautiful earth.