As of 17th March 2011, 166 people have been officially announced dead by the local authorities.
september 2010: darfield, west of christchurch feburary 2011: lyttelton, suburb in south christchurch
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the Pacific and Australian plates collided together, to make the earthquake.
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166 people had died.
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65 people were killed in the New Zealand earthquake in Christchurch.
182 people died in the Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011. 1 person died a few months later in an aftershock on 13 June.
2 people were injured in the Christchurch earthquake. There was one death. The person died from a heart attack although no one knows if the heart attack was caused by the earthquake or not.
There are excellent articles on both the Canterbury earthquake and the Christchurch earthquake in wikipedia.
181 as of 3 may 2011
there was 6,000 people injured in the Feburary earthquake
Yes. Many Japanese died as a result of an earthquake and tsunami, as did those in Christchurch New Zealand as the result of an earthquake.
160 and still counting! It was a very massive earthquake!
181 fatalities in the feb 2011 earthquake. There is a wikipedia site 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and in geonet.org.nz you'll also find lots of great scientific analysis of the events.