• The sorrow in Christchurch: We won’t add anything to this, except to offer the deepest sympathies possible. source

• 145 have been found dead in the rubble of the 6.3-magnitude quake
• 200+ are still missing; most are feared dead from the quake source

• 120 bodies could be in one Christchurch building source

• » The building in question: The Canterbury Television building, which beyond a television station, also housed an English-language school with many foreign students. The station says that many of its top executives could be in the rubble. None of this count, by the way, is included in the official death toll of 76. So that death toll could go up significantly; shudder.

• 6.3 the magnitude of the quake that hit the city of Christchurch
• 65+ reported killed in the region’s second quake quake in six months
• 100+ feared hidden under the rubble of collapsed buildings source

• » New Zealand’s worst disaster ever? While already the worst disaster the region has faced in 80 years, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key suggested it may be even worse than that. “We paid a very heavy price here,” he said. “We could be looking down the barrel at New Zealand’s darkest day.” Buildings with schools and television stations were reduced to rubble. Cathedrals lost their shape. All in all, he may be right.

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  deaths the good part about yesterday’s big quake in New Zealand
• $1.4 billion the estimate of damages from the quake; that’s the bad part source

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• To give you an idea of how bad this could be, Christchurch is the second largest city in the country. Fingers crossed. source