Earthquakes occur most frequently where tectonic plates meet and press against each other, such as where the Pacific and Australian plates meet in New Zealand. The 2011 Christchurch earthquake registered a magnitude of 6.5 and resulted in 181 deaths, making it one of the country's most destructive quakes. The information was sourced from an online search using Google.

1. What is an earthquake? Earthquakes are most frequent in regions where two moving plates meet and press against each other.

2. What causes an earthquake NZ is in a such a region – it straddles the bounders between the Pacific plate, which covers almost a quarter of the earth surface and the Australian plate.

3. Christchurch earthquake. The Christchurch earthquake was a magnitude of 6.5, 181 people died from this earthquake.

4. My source of information… My source of information is Google.