NZ like California is on the earthquake belt, and prone to them as well, we have had some biggies, infact one was at least 7 on the scale but was where it was basically un-populated, so the damage was very little.

If everyone in NZ gave 1 dollar that would raise 4million, imagine what other countries could give.

We still have many NZer's unaccounted for over there.

This is indeed just mind-blowing, imagine surviving this and then still have to cope with what is ahead.

The cricket team is touring NZ right now, they have opted to postpone the tour and go back home, there can be a 2 million dollar fine and they can be banned from playing for doing so, but NZ has done the decent thing, and agreed of course to them going, so all is sweet, no fines, and hopefully the guys can get back to their homeland and help with the clean up, luckily none of their families were lost, most are travelling with the team, and two of their mothers were injured, but you can imagine how the poor guys would feel.