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Friday, May 25th

A 5.2 earthquake has struck Christchurch and despite no initial reports of damage, work in the central city red zone has been called off for the day. The quake struck at 2.44pm on Friday, and was off the coast, centred 10km east of the city at a depth of 11km.

Photo by Thinkstock May 21, 2012

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