One of New Zealand's biggest cities, Christchurch was on 22 February 2011 hit by a powerful earthquake of 6.3 magnitude. It was the second major quake to hit Christchurch, a city of 350,000, in five months. The earthquake that hit Christchurch on 22 February 2011 caused greater destruction compared to earlier quake that hit New Zealand in September 2010. In the country's worst natural disaster in decades approximately 65 people were killed. The spire of the city's well-known stone cathedral toppled into a central square, while buildings collapsed in on themselves and streets were strewn with rubble.
The quake reportedly shook a massive chunk of ice from New Zealand's biggest glacier, some 192 km to the east of Christchurch.
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