Summary for Learning from the Christchurch Earthquake

During the earthquake of 2010 and 2011 it had bad consequences for Christchurch. Studying the causes and the impact, scientists understand much more about the process involved. Some of the scientists were carried out by geoscientists, they study earth processes (Natural disasters).

Okay as you know there are about to main earthquakes, the first one appeared in September 2010 which had been registered 7.1 on the Richter Scale it also was centred very close to Darfield. The second earthquake happened a year later, 2011 on the 22nd February 12:51 pm the earthquake struck and killed 185 people, and it was on a scale of 6.3.

Moving onto the Richter Scale, there is 9 scales and they are,

1. Not Felt
2. Minor
3. Minor
4. Small
5. Small
6. Moderate
7. Strong
8. Major
9. Great

This is the scale.