— A series of earthquakes shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, collapsing at least one building and briefly trapping two people inside a damaged church.
Power was cut to about 10,000 homes in the city’s eastern suburbs and dust billowed from the cordoned-off inner city devastated in February’s major earthquake.
People fled buildings in panic when a 5.2-magnitude quake struck during lunchtime; just over an hour later, a 6.0 was recorded, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Six people have been taken to hospitals with minor injuries from falling debris, an ambulance service said.
“We are being enveloped with dust. It is very, very scary,” Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker told New Zealand’s National Radio.
