The Extra Shake By Harrison I am a survivor from the Christchurch earthquake

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  • The Extra Shake By Harrison
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  • I am a survivor from the Christchurch earthquake.
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  • I was walking past the Christchurch cathedral it was a nice day up into when the earthquake hit.
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  • It was 4:35 it all started shaking I ran away form any building and joined with a group of people.
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  • I Sprinted back to my house, the news was that a 7.1 magnitude quake that hit us, you could hear the screaming of the people.
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  • The quake caused widespread damage and caused several power outages mostly in the city and was bad for us as we could not cook any thing.
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  • The Earthquake was 40 kilometre west of Christchurch and ripped building.
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  • It was felt from Invercargill to Wellington we heard. As the massive wave spread.
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  • The roads were undividable the cars buried in the rubble there was no escape. We were trapped and all we could do was wait.
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  • 181 people have been confirmed dead, it was a sad time. I was lucky that I wasn't pinned down under rubble.
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  • There has been around 7,000 after shocks, it feels like a continuous wave of movement, I am glad for it to be over and starting to rebuild.
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  • Bibliograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbur y_earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbur y_earthquake