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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/search-goes-on-for-nz-quake-victims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Rescue workers climb onto the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness Building in central Christchurch, New Zealand (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-search-goes-on-for-nz-quake-victims.jpg" alt="Rescue workers climb onto the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness Building in central Christchurch, New Zealand (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Rescuers are continuing a desperate search for survivors throughout the night amid the ruins of the New Zealand city of Christchurch after a massive earthquake that killed at least 65 people.</p>
<p>It was the second major shock to hit the city of 350,000 in five months, although it caused far more destruction than the first. More than 100 people were thought to still be trapped in the rubble.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is just a scene of utter devastation,&#8221; Prime Minister John Key said after arriving in the city within hours of the quake. He said the death toll may rise, adding: &#8220;We may well be witnessing New Zealand&#8217;s darkest day.&#8221;</p>
<p>The shock hit around lunchtime on a busy working day, causing the spire of the city&#8217;s stone cathedral to fall into a central square, while multi-storey buildings collapsed in on themselves and streets were strewn with bricks and shattered concrete.</p>
<p>Ambulance services were quickly overwhelmed, and people helped victims to private vehicles in makeshift stretchers fashioned from rugs or bits of debris.</p>
<p>Mayor Bob Parker declared a state of emergency and ordered people to evacuate the city centre. He said it was impossible to say how many people were trapped in the rubble, but that it was estimated to be more than 100.</p>
<p>The airport was closed, and Christchurch Hospital was briefly evacuated before reopening. Power and phone lines were knocked out, and pipes burst, flooding the streets with water.</p>
<p>Police said among the dead were people in two buses that had been crushed by falling buildings. Mr Parker said rescue teams including sniffer dogs were fanning out across the city and would work through the night. </p>
<p>Relief centres were set up in schools and community halls, where food was being served to thousands of sheltering people and donated blankets were being handed out. In at least one park people &#8211; many of them tourists who had abandoned their hotels &#8211; huddled in hastily pitched tents and under plastic sheeting.</p>
<p>The US Geological Survey said the tremor was centred three miles from the city at a relatively shallow and therefore more dangerous depth of 2.5 miles. The Survey said the latest quake was part of the &#8220;aftershock sequence&#8221; following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on September 4 last year. </p>
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