The USA and Australia need to participate in moving people to safety in New Zealand.

There are going to be areas along this region that will never be stable again. The people of New Zealand have to have reassurance they can live a sustainable future rather than one that requires continuing danger and rebuilding. To ask the people of this region to remain loyal to rebuilding is a human rights violation as far as I am concerned. Fearing the very land under one's feet is not a healthy population of any country.

November 14, 2016
By Conrad Heine

“Here we go again” (click here) was possibly the first reaction of many New Zealanders when the top of the country’s South Island was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake just after midnight (local time) in the early hours of Nov. 14. The human toll—two, at time of writing—paled in comparison to the 185 who died in the earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand’s second-largest city, in February 2011. But there was still, said prime minister John Key, “utter devastation,” including smashed highways and railway lines across, and significant damage to towns. Kaikoura (population 3,740), famed more for whale-watching tourism than seismic events, was cut off....

This deadly trend in New Zealand is not over. This earthquake is a result of the many other earthquakes before it. The New Zealand people may need immigration status in Australia. I would suggest any movement of people be based in families and not individuals.

This is long sustained damage. The country has resources, but, with repeated quakes those resources will become depleted. New Zealand's government needs to look realistically at the recent past, today and what occurred since the first severe Christchurch earthquake. I do believe the USGS would state the idea of rebuilding in quake zones is something that needs to be considered differently and/or abandoned.