Christchurch

Christchurch

Shocked people gazing at the wreckage in disbelief.. flagpoles that once adorned roofs now in the streets, broken buildings everywhere.. this Youtube doesn' have any sound, but it doesn't need it to show the devastation in Christchurch tonight.

New Zealand's PM has described today as probably the country's darkest.

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At the bottom of the rubble

Submitted by Paul Walter on February 25, 2011 - 9:06pm.

Richard, the newspapers are suggesting the majority of the missing are going to eventually turn up lifeless at the bottom of the rubble. The chances for most are said to be poor, altho pockets of life still exists, manifest in the desperate scrabblings under the rubble where they are trapped,

Shaky isles.

Submitted by Paul Walter on February 24, 2011 - 1:25pm.

The damage looks phenomenal. Coming from Adelaide, I'd say it must be an odd thing living in an earthquake zone, waiting for the big one.

Christchurch must put stresses on the EnZed economy, I hope Australia has the wit not to be too stingy this time. If we can't find some thing of ourselves in EnZedders, what hope in finding it in more exotic "others", like the Hazara of Afghanistan?

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Submitted by Richard Tonkin on February 23, 2011 - 1:59pm.

I think the saddest tale I've heard so far was the lady still continually texting her daughter's phone in the hope that the ringing would alert rescuers. The frantic look in her eyes will be worn by many today.

400 are still missing.. hoe many of those are still alive?