NZ EQ Update:

New Zealand Updates:

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	4.8	2011/12/23 03:50:12	-43.536	173.021	8.4	OFF EAST COAST OF THE SOUTH ISLAND, N.Z.
MAP	5.9	2011/12/23 02:18:02	-43.491	172.844	4.9	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	4.0	2011/12/23 01:41:37	-43.523	172.956	11.2	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	4.2	2011/12/23 01:30:24	-43.537	172.936	5.0	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	5.3	2011/12/23 01:06:25	-43.456	172.899	3.7	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	5.8	2011/12/23 00:58:36	-43.489	172.977	4.7	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

EQ-NZ....

There has been a 3rd quake registering 5.8 an hour or so after the 1st.
The initial 5.8 EQ has now been upgraded to a 6.0.....

New Zealand Quakes...

Christchurch has had 2 pretty good temblors here in the last hour+ NO major reports of damages coming in yet, the Airport is now evacuated and there are reports of power outages and some liquefaction events and photos coming in of some landslides.

First EQ was 5.8 and the second was 5.3 both were extremely shallow EQ's and described by locals as "violent" shaking.

Updated info can be found at : 3News.co.nz