One year on, Christchurch still counting the cost
February marked the first anniversary of New Zealand’s most deadly natural disaster. One year on from the magnitude 6.3 quake that devastated downtown Christchurch on 22 February 2011 and claimed the lives of 185 people – and with the dust far from settled – Post looks at what lessons have been learned from the resulting claims.
It has been estimated that the total cost to insurers of rebuilding after the earthquake will be around NZ$20bn to NZ$30bn (£10.5bn to £15.8bn) and the quake has been ranked the most destructive in
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