New Zealand authorities have shifted the rescue to the location of bodies after exclude any survivors under the rubble of buildings demolished by the earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch, on 22 February. "Unfortunately, given the time elapsed, it is time to focus efforts on the recovery of bodies," said the head of Civil Protection, John Hamilton, told a news conference.
The police, in turn, revealed the identity of the first foreigners killed by the earthquake: two young Israeli nationality. According to the Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, the earthquake of 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale, took the lives of nearly a hundred people from twenty different nationalities.
For now, the official number of dead reached 161, although the authorities do not disclose the nationalities or the names of victims until we are certain about their identity, expected to reach 240, at the conclusion of the search. The Israelis, two hikers of 22 and 23, were found in the rubble of one building collapsed in Chrischurch, the second largest city located in the South Island.
Police said at least 120 bodies of Chinese and Japanese students are under the collapsed walls of a language school that was inside the television building of Canterbury. An international team of 900 people working in the rescue and reconstruction, but the families have lost hope of finding anyone alive.
The aftershocks of the earthquake, up to 4.7 degrees on the Richter scale, hampering the work of emergency teams, which for nine days working among the ruins and debris. According to Swiss Re, the damage caused by the quake will cost insurance companies between 6,000 and 12.0000 million dollars (about 4,300 and 8,700 million euros).
Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurers said they expect claims worth about $ 800 million. On Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, promised to rebuild the city and create a commission of inquiry to investigate why so many buildings fell like houses of cards in an area of known seismic activity.
The reconstruction will cost at least U.S. $ 12,000 million (8,700 million euros) and the economy will not recover until June sustained growth, because of the disaster. New Zealand sits on the fault between the tectonic plates of the Pacific and Oceania and records about 14,000 earthquakes each year, of which 100 and 150 are strong enough to be perceived. 
The police, in turn, revealed the identity of the first foreigners killed by the earthquake: two young Israeli nationality. According to the Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, the earthquake of 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale, took the lives of nearly a hundred people from twenty different nationalities.
For now, the official number of dead reached 161, although the authorities do not disclose the nationalities or the names of victims until we are certain about their identity, expected to reach 240, at the conclusion of the search. The Israelis, two hikers of 22 and 23, were found in the rubble of one building collapsed in Chrischurch, the second largest city located in the South Island.
Police said at least 120 bodies of Chinese and Japanese students are under the collapsed walls of a language school that was inside the television building of Canterbury. An international team of 900 people working in the rescue and reconstruction, but the families have lost hope of finding anyone alive.
The aftershocks of the earthquake, up to 4.7 degrees on the Richter scale, hampering the work of emergency teams, which for nine days working among the ruins and debris. According to Swiss Re, the damage caused by the quake will cost insurance companies between 6,000 and 12.0000 million dollars (about 4,300 and 8,700 million euros).
Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurers said they expect claims worth about $ 800 million. On Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, promised to rebuild the city and create a commission of inquiry to investigate why so many buildings fell like houses of cards in an area of known seismic activity.
The reconstruction will cost at least U.S. $ 12,000 million (8,700 million euros) and the economy will not recover until June sustained growth, because of the disaster. New Zealand sits on the fault between the tectonic plates of the Pacific and Oceania and records about 14,000 earthquakes each year, of which 100 and 150 are strong enough to be perceived.
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