Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Photos of Mw7.1 Darfield (Canterbury), New Zealand Earthquake

          Figure 1. Figure 2.    Figure 3.                    Figure 4.  Figure 5.   Figure 6.                 Note: The Canterbury earthquake is also referred as the Darfield or Christchurch earthquake. For more information, visit the New Zealand […]

USGS Event Page

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000huvq/executive#executive

Darfield Space Time Plot

See the Space-Time Plot: Darfield EQ Sequence (0.21 MB PDF) Note: The symbols show epicentral locations scaled to magnitude.  Red symbols indicate events with magnitudes greater than 5.  

Aftershock Sequence

The period prior to 22/2/2011 contained fourteen events of magnitude 5.0 to 5.6 and forty events of magnitude 4.5 to 5.0. Since 22/2/2011 there have been five aftershocks between 5.0 and 6.3 and eighteen between 4.5 and 5.0.   Figure 1. Christchurch area aftershock sequence – Sep 2010 – Mar 2011.   Christchurch is built […]

NOAA Energy Plot

See the Main Event Page: Tohoku (East Coast of Honshu) Tsunami, March 11, 2011     Figure 1. Energy plot of the M8.9 earthquake distributed over the Pacific Ocean.