Journal: Not much to say today.
 I again went for a walk this morning, then had breakfast, sat down and watched 2 comedies on SKY-TV., put out the weekly rubbish, did 2 loads of washing and hung them out, cleaned up my overdue Gmail account and then sat down and wrote a few words.

Journal: Second Earthquake
A second earthquake hit the Christchurch area today around 12.30 p.m., lunchtime, magnitude 6.3 and shallow, causing much further devastation to the city, with major injuries and deaths, numbers not known presently. An aftershock followed later said to be 5.6. and also shallow.

Earlier this morning I said not much doing today. An unfortunate phrase. Todays earthquake and aftershock being shallow, was much more serious than last year.

What now to do with Christchurch?  It seem the city was built about 160 years ago on a shallow crust covering the central business district and unknown apparently to to the builders of the past.

The British newspaper The Guardian picked up the story 20 minutes after the 'quake, and before the NZ local papers. Amazing!