The Christchurch earthquake–has there been a cover-up?

‘..There have been suggestions that one reinsurer has been preparing to sue the Christchurch City Council for allowing major developments to go ahead on areas which the geotechnical reports said wouldn’t stand up to significant earthquakes.
Since the February 22 quake there has been considerable – if intermittent – focus on previous geotechnical reports that indicated that far from being a “quake safe” area as many of the public had thought, Christchurch was in fact vulnerable.
That was because of the underlying seismicity, the result of the many hidden faultlines, and also because the soft soil was prone to liquefaction. No suit has emerged. But it is instructive that some major reinsurers are not yet issuing new cover for Christchurch…’
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