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Monday 06 September 10:35 a.m.
By Kooge
Canterbury was rocked by a 7.1 earthquake early Saturday morning (04-SEP-2010) that toppled buildings, destroyed houses, burst water mains, disrupted essential services and wrecked havoc on life as Cantab's knew it. Thankfully, there were no lives lost.
Help the relief effort for Canterbury, by donating to the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal - run by the New Zealand Red Cross... with one hundred percent of donations going to the appeal. Click here to donate now.
If you are in the quake affected area, check out the New Zealand Civil Defence website for help - including how to treat drinking water.
The disaster received massive attention from media all over the world. Celebrities from here and around the world took to Twitter to show their support for Canterbury... check out some of the tweets below:
Hayley Williams (from Paramore): Thinkin about Christchurch, NZ today. Love our NZ fans
Mandy Moore: sending good thoughts and prayers to all the folks in new zealand......
B.o.B: I wish the best to the people in ChristChurch, New Zealand.
Rove: Hope all my Kiwi followers are doing ok post-earthquake
Eva Longoria: God Bless everyone in New Zealand! We are praying for you!
Russell Crowe: Shout out to Christchurch, hope you guys are ok. Any ideas if Christ's College area was damaged? Hope you stay safe.
The Jonas Brothers: New Zealand we love you and want you to know our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families.
Scribe: Thanks everyone for your tweets, i'm very well and safe. Very lucky my house was not damaged. Water and power is on now. evacuated the house and went straight to check on Nana. She is all good, her street was one of the only one's with power and water...
Rhys Darby: Thoughts and love going out to all the ChCh peeps and anyone affected by this mornings quake! Great live phoner on TVNZ "how is your house?" pause. "it's buggered! it's gone! It's F'd"
Mike McRoberts: Just filming a piece to camera before in Worchester St when the building next to me exploded into fire. Crazy fire.
Boh Runga: Didn't find out about the earthquake in hometown CHCH until someone from LA told me. Eek! Glad no-one was hurt. How's the Arts Centre?
David Farrier: shit! I hope they get the power back on for Metallica this month. good luck christchurch! hang in there!
Neemia Tialata: was woken up by some sad news this morning after lying in bed riding the earthquake in Wgtn... Thoughts & prayers 2 all my Christchurch tweeps!!!
Hayley Westenra: Ahh... 7.4 Earthquake in Christchurch, NZ... Just called my family. All ok, but argh, hate being so distanced from them. I really hope everyone back home is safe... Thinking of you all xxxxx
Help the relief effort for Canterbury, by donating to the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal - run by the New Zealand Red Cross... with one hundred percent of donations going to the appeal. Click here to donate now
If you are in the quake affected area, check out the New Zealand Civil Defence website for help - including how to treat drinking water.