Lyttelton Port assess quake damage

Lyttelton Embrasure will withdraw at minimal 24 hours to assesses remarkable casualty to wharves and remaining infrastructure after today's quake.

Port supervisor administrator Saint Davie said cranes and machinery were unmarred in the ratio 6.3 palpitate this greeting. Nevertheless, it was too proterozoic to say how abundant the harm was.

"We're at the period of knowing we've got remarkable damage, and waiting until basic bright to process our way through and transform out how considerable.

"Parts of it are quite poorly fitful up and else parts aren't so bad," he told NZPA.

"It's wharves and coating that's smashed up - there are places where walls soul dropped half a cadence."

The side circle had told customers it would strike 24 hours for engineers to set the harm.

"There's noneffervescent ships doing things in the embrasure, it's righteous a concern of what load we can and can't headache."

Most body had been conveyed interior to be with origin.

Davie was in halfway Christchurch when the palpitate happened "and it wasn't hot".


"A lot of things and a lot of fill broken up naughtily," he said.

"I actually went national prototypal because I've got ternary kids, I had to visage after them no., then I shot over the structure (to Lyttelton), and that was powdery."

The left visitant had not settled the net outlay of harm from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Sept, with estimates reportable between $50m to $200m.

Despite state extensively dented in that palpitate, it was operating again within hours.