Gisborne earthquake

2007 Gisborne earthquake

On the 21st of december 2007 at 8:55 pm a massive earthquake hit gisborne a small city in New Zealand but could be felt from Dunedin (a city at the bottom of New Zealand) to Auckland (a city near the top of New Zealand). It was massive!

New zealand is on a tectonic plate boundary line of two tectonic plates the pacific plate and the australian plate, they smash together that creates a earthquake. The magnitude was 6.7 on the richter scale. It was 33 kilometers deep, 11 people injured and 3 buildings collapsed.

Earthquakes can happen anywhere, and is probably happening right now, except it’s so weak you can’t feel it so it is probably under 3 in the richter scale, sometimes it can be very intense and destroy cities like this one kind of did. It was probably the most extreme earthquake in gisborne.

This earthquake nobody can forget.