The little square is the city centre, which was flattened. The other spots are the 13,000 odd shocks since then – minor ones which people hardly feel. But when they do there is often quite a lot of understandable worry. Some people cannot stand loud bangs any more – including the son of the people we stayed with. For a long time after the quake he slept under the dining room table.
poor christchurch! curious but true is that i know it better than Lancaster! (visited it often when working in 1978 in Rangiora and 2007 and 2009 from ashburton)…freinds tell us city centre still looks like a war zone