Chch Airport this morning was closed for a while after they found new cracks in the walls
"Christchurch Airport was closed for over two hours this morning after cracks appeared in the walls.
Airport spokesman Gareth Owen said the airport usually opens at about 5am but with the aftershocks overnight, engineers were called in to check the safety of the building.
Mr Owen said it was deemed safe and was opened at 7.30am."
Last nights aftershocks were
"The aftershocks included one with a magnitude of 5.2 shortly before 11.30pm, one of 5.4 soon after, and another of 5.4 around 3.30am today. Another 3.6 on the Richter scale hit at 8.14am and was followed 10 minutes later by a quake measuring 3.6"
Which to say the least are still decent shocks for NZ, having slept or not through a couple of them.
In terms of tourists and what I have from the locals is the inner city, New Brighton and some rural, coastal and near river area's are still pretty messed up. They will get back to a sort of normal in a couple of weeks
but there will still be area's of no go.
Check with your hotels to see if they are still open, suffered damage or restricted access (cordon). Tourist stuff / sites will be generally open by the weekend unless they are in the city cordon. There is still plenty of shopping in the suburbs.
- All subject to the aftershocks reducing.
Advice for travellers:idea:
Christchurch Earthquake - Latest Advice for Travellers - Tourism New Zealand
There have been minor quakes in other parts of NZ and these will get media attention but generally not significant and would not normally get a mention.:arrow:
