Late in 2008 things looked bad enough when the finance world experienced a universal melt down in the credit industry, with huge banking organizations tumbling. The resounding fall of the leaders echoed right around the earth, with aftershocks that lasted for years, as whole economies struggled to recover. Nature then seemed to want to have its say.
In the picturesque garden and second largest city in New Zealand, most people living in Christchurch, had never experienced even the smallest tremour in their lives, until the Darfield 7.1 magnitude quake of 4th September 2010, in a previously unknown fault line. Although the quake created widespread damage there was virtually no loss of life.
Numerous seismologists now say the 7.1 earthquake was comprised of three or four separate quakes. A 6.5
