The Press reporter and columnist MARTIN VAN BEYNEN reviews the biggest news stories of the last decade in Christchurch and Canterbury. * The scale of loss in the Christchurch mosque shootingsThe first was an earthquake on September 4, 2010. After a decade marked by earthquakes, a devastating fire and a horrible massacre of innocents, the city was not out of the woods. Six people were injured, two critically, in the explosion, that caused a blast that registered as a magnitude 2 earthquake. The legacy of the decade could be that Christchurch has earned a reputation as a city where only bad things happen.

Source: Stuff December 27, 2019 15:56 UTC