The earthquake from an engineer's perspectiveROBERT KITCHIN/FAIRFAX NZ A central Wellington carpark commonly known as the Reading Cinema carpark is at significant risk of collapse. MONIQUE FORD / Fairfax NZ Engineers and emergency services tend to a building in Molesworth street, Wellington, with structural earthquake damage. READ MORE:* Live: 7.8 New Zealand earthquake* Second Wellington building cracks after magnitude 7.5 quake* ​Earthquake: Damage to quake-hit Wellington building is getting 'incrementally worse'* Serious concerns for Wellington building's safety* Floor pancaked at Stats NZ House"Buildings that were very stiff had very little energy input." This particular earthquake, however, ruptured over a length of over a hundred kilometres and triggered a second, simultaneous earthquake. Here's one from the archives: an earthquake at Inangahua, in 1968, was the first earthquake to contain more than 1G of vertical energy.

Source: Stuff November 18, 2016 09:16 UTC