• 27 miners missing in New Zealand; we hope it’s another Chile source

• no
  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

• Certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up.
• Harbour City (New Zealand) Funeral Home director Danny Langstraa • Regarding a man who had apparently been going to as many as four funerals a week just to nosh on the food. The man, in his 40s, clearly did not know any of the deceased whose funerals he showed up for in March and April. If this sounds like a subject ripe for a movie parody, Will Ferrell has already done it in “Wedding Crashers” – as an wedding-crash expert who had recently started crashing funerals. source

• 14
  killed the death toll from the tsunami near Samoa, which was rooted in an 8.0 earthquake earlier today
• much worse the expected impact; forecasters had issued a watch for Hawaii and warnings in New Zealand source

• 2 riders injured in a suspected air-rifle shooting source

• He just wanted to listen to tunes. Chris Ogle, a 29-year-old New Zealand man, came upon the data when putting songs on his new tech toy. “The more I look at it,” Ogle says, “the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.” Most of the files are from 2005 and are unlikely to compromise security, but the files did include things such as social security numbers of troops. If asked, Ogle would give the MP3 player to the U.S. Government. source