THE MAGNITUDE 6.3 earthquake that rocked New Zealand on February 22 has been captured on satellite imagery.

The image shows that the epicentre of the tremor – which is now believed to have been an aftershock from a magnitude 7.1 quake that happened last September – occurred right under the city’s south-east suburbs.

The UK-based Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes (COMET) used data captured by the Japanese Also spacecraft to create the image, which will be studied by scientists to get a better understanding of future earthquake risks in the area.

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Seen from space: the Christchurch earthquake

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