Quake expert on Christchurch aftershocks

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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 7:00p.m.

A University of Canterbury doctoral student, John Holdaway, has calculated the September 4 quake released 2.8 quadrillion joules of energy.

There have been over a thousand aftershocks in Canterbury; they're still going 22 days later.

What does that mean?

Natasha Utting talks to tectonics expert Mark Quigley.

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30 Sep 2010 05:29a.m.

L Ikenasio wrote:

How are the people of Samoa meant to be happy and content with their living conditions when it is not even classed as living??? Tuilaepa, how can you sit there and say that the 'Tsunami is no longer an issue'!!!! if you ask me, that sounds like an answer you would get from someone who's eaten all the money that generous people have donated to a worthy cause!!! Our people are going without alot of things, inparticularly houses, water etc, the necessities! I am absolutely appaulled, disgusted and ashamed to be of samoan decent! As if our poor people have not been through enough with the tsunami, now they have to live in these conditions? i think that some serious investigations need to take place, because the state the people of samoa are living in does not equal $200million tala! What a corrupt government... of course tuilaepa would say that the tsunami is not an issue, because he has a house, with walls, a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, a house full of furniture, fresh water and some... utterly disgusted... to think that someone like that, has the final say over our country and people!!