{"id":4643,"date":"2010-09-03T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2010-09-04T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T18:49:27","slug":"72-earthquake-near-christchurch-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"7.2 Earthquake near Christchurch New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10671049\"><strong>Update.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/image.cfm?c_id=1&#038;gal_objectid=10671049&#038;gallery_id=113677#7073686\"><strong>Photos.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ihsQimD80kg2_FHiYslx-Q-O6qKQ\"><strong>7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes New Zealand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WELLINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand&#8217;s second largest city Christchurch early Saturday, causing widespread damage including the collapse of some buildings and power outages, witnesses and the US geological survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake struck at a depth of 16.1 kilometres (10.0 miles) some 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of&#8230; Christchurch at 04:05 am (1635 GMT Friday), the USGS said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no major tsunami warning.<\/p>\n<p>Aftershocks were ongoing and damage widespread in Christchurch, local newspaper The Post reported, while there appeared to be a power outage throughout the city of about 340,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: <\/strong>Christchurch New Zealand was host to the 2004 ISF Men&#8217;s World Championships.  We hope our friends down that way are ok.  Anyone down that way affected? Email: jim (at) fastpitchwest.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update. Photos. 7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes New Zealand WELLINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand&#8217;s second largest city Christchurch early Saturday, causing widespread damage including the collapse of some buildings and power outages, witnesses and the US geological survey said. The quake struck at a depth of 16.1 kilometres (10.0 miles) some 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}