You would have heard by now of the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday. It was 7.1 on the Richter scale and remarkably – I would say miraculously – there have been no deaths directly from the earthquake reported so far. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, Haiti - which was hit by a strike-slip fault that caused a 7.0 magnitude quake last January - suffered the loss of at least 220,000 lives. New Zealand , which also experienced a strike-slip fault between the Pacific plate to the east and the Australian plate to the west,... [More]

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