First pictures of earthquake damage in New Zealand

[madmom]

Source: msnbc

Carissa Ray says: More than two hours before images started moving to us on the wires of the earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand, we started contacting locals that were posting images to Twitter and getting their permission to run the image with the lead story of our site.
The first image we ran was a before and after, using pictures people were posting from Google streetview compared with images they were shooting and sending to Twitter of the damage to their neighborhoods in the early morning hours ( like @jbergler and the image he shot, above, which was the first NZ image to lead msnbc.com today).
Several people were tweeting that with power out, networks like Twitter were where they were getting most of their news. Two days in a row, breaking news has shown us that citizen journalism isn't just a concept anymore.



Read more: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/03/5041102-first-pictures-of-earthquake-damage-in-new-zealand

[demi moore]

1. im in new zealand

just heard on the radio people are reporting the smell of sulfur...

[shireen]

2. are you OK? nt

[Richard D]

3. Sulfur?

bush is in New Zealand?

[jpak]

6. There is volcanic activity all over both islands - and Rotarua reeks of sufur

Lyttelton Harbor and much of the Banks Penninsula just over the hill from Christchurch are extinct volanic crators.

Smelling sulfur might not be a good thing...

[demi moore]

4. yep, i was up studying.

shook my room from over 300k km away

if u want to listen to the nz radio, here is a link if it will stream overseas..
http://www.radiolive.co.nz/

[Adsos Letter]

5. Yup, livestream works. Thanks, and stay safe!

[msongs]

8. special plug in must be downloaded to listen nt

[demi moore]

7. this has always botherd me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taupo

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/taupo-volcano-would-dwarf-iceland-eruption-3639510

[bemildred]

9. Well, yeah, but that is not the only one, or the worst. nt

[defendandprotect]

10. How big was it???

[Historic NY]

11. I wish the Kiwi's well....looks like lots of damage.

[depakid]

12. Photo's from the NZ Herald here:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/image.cfm?c_id=1&gal_cid=1&gallery_id=113677#7073686

It's very fortunate that the quake hit while people were home in bed, or there would be a LOT more casualties.