Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playA single image showing a huge chasm in the earth illustrates just how devastating the North Canterbury earthquake was to rural parts of New Zealand. The photograph shows a crack running through a hill on farmland in Conway, near Kaikoura, following the 7.5 magnitude quake at midnight on Sunday. More than 30 aftershocks have occurred in the past two hours, taking the count to over 300 since 6am Tuesday. "And hopefully this will better inform our models as well, although most of our forecasts are based on statistics." GeoNet said it was "extremely likely" that aftershocks would continue to decrease in frequency over the next 30 days - though the probability of another huge quake over magnitude 7 over the period was 22 per cent.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 15, 2016 07:29 UTC