A rude awakening: Reliving the Canterbury earthquake 10 years on

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A rude awakening: Reliving the Canterbury earthquake 10 years on

Zahra

Shahtahmasebi

zshahtahmasebi@nzdoctor.co.nz

Friday 4 September 2020, 03:04 PM

Shops damaged by the 2010 Christchurch Earthquake_Greg Hewgill_Wikimedia Commons

Damage to shops following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. Photo by Greg Hewgill, Wikimedia Commons

Reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi travels back 10 years and relives her experience as a 13-year-old during the first Canterbury earthquake and the aftershocks that followed

“Even now, 10 years later, I’ll be in the office in Auckland and a particularly loud, rumbly truck goes by and I will freeze every single time”

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