• Fragments

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • The February 2011 earthquake turned Canterbury upside down. We hear from the people who lived through that traumatic, life-changing day and what's happened in the decade since.
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2025
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  • Introducing: Fragments
    Feb 12 2021

    In less than a minute, Christchurch and its people will be changed forever.

    "I thought, 'we're going to die, let's die together'."

    At 12.51 pm on February 22, 2011 a 6.3 earthquake shook Christchurch.

    185 people died.

    Thousands were injured.

    Everyone who was in Christchurch that day has a story to tell. Some have probably told their stories many times.

    In Fragments: First-hand accounts of the February 2011 earthquake, RNZ'S Katy Gosset brings together many of these different, but overlapping stories.

    These interviews, originally recorded by Christchurch documentary producers, Sandra Close and Julie Hutton in the months immediately after the devastating 6.3 magnitude quake, as a means of securing a valuable archival record for the people of Canterbury, take us back there as witnesses in their own words relive a devastating day

    Ten years have passed. How do these stories end? RNZ interviews some of those who were there to find out what's happened for them in the last decade.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    5 mins
  • The Hills
    Feb 21 2021

    A 6.3 aftershock surges out from near Lyttelton, across the Port Hills and into the surrounding suburbs.

    Watch a video interview from the episode here

    As a 6.3 aftershock surges out from near Lyttelton, across the Port Hills and into the surrounding suburbs, a jogger tries to outrun boulders falling all around her on a hillside track; a team races to protect people on the Port Hills gondola; a journalist travels from Lyttleton to the central city to find his missing daughter; two women take a wild bus ride through liquefaction and across broken bridges to get to the CBD and a Cashmere man loses his home.

    Ten years on, what impact has the quake had on these survivors? How have their lives changed?

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    49 mins
  • The PGC Building
    Feb 23 2021

    Trapped survivors wait while emergency staff and passersby begin an extraordinary rescue.

    Watch a video interview from the episode here

    Inside a collapsed building people with life- changing injuries wait hours to be freed while outside emergency services, builders, crane operators and a schoolteacher begin a grueling rescue operation.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    1 hr and 11 mins

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