Does Auckland new Zealand have earthquakes?

Answer 1

All of New Zealand has earthquakes. Have a look for a map of NZ earthquakes 1990 - 99 on the gns.cri.nz website.

Shallow earthquakes are spread indifferently throughout NZ. And these are the ones of most importance to buildings etc.

Deep earthquakes have a different distribution, and are more closely associated with the descending Pacific Plate. The shallow earthquakes reflect the strains generated by the plate movement and the subsequent redistribution of strains.

Answer 2

The earthquake in Christchurch was in the South Island of New Zealand. Auckland is near the top of the North Island of New Zealand.

However, yes Auckland and the rest of New Zealand will be effected. Such as:

# Mobile phone exchange is overloaded with calls of emergency services for Christchurch. Which slows down txt messages being able to received.

#Main business call centres have branches in Christchurch, which also effects the wait time in business phone calls being answered

# Resources such as government help, work and income, emergency workers are all focusing their attention on Christchurch.

# Christchurch is in large need of help of funding and housing to help the people effected by the earthquake.

Answer 3

if this was added in 2011 then yes. Christchurch had an earthquke in february killing hundreds of people.