NZ's quake a double whammy

15 November 2016 - 10:02
By Reuters

The powerful earthquake that struck New Zealand early on Sunday might have been the result of not one but two seismic calamities. There is now speculation that a slippage on one geological fault line might have immediately triggered a collapse on a second, scientists said yesterday.The earthquake, of a hefty magnitude 7.

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