Denise Torrey is the principal of Summerfield School in the south of Christchurch.
Radio New Zealand reporter Rachel Graham is at the triage centre that has been set up in Latimer Square.
Andrew Holden is the Editor of The Press. The Christchurch Press building suffered extreme damge.
Christchurch city councillor Barry Corbett is at Civil Defence headquarters.
Bill English addresses Press at the Beehive.
Finance Minister Bill English, and the Civil Defence Minister John Carter have a news conference at the Beehive theatrette.
Dave Cliff is the Police Superintendent.
Murray Sherwan is the Chair of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission.
David Meates is Chief Executive of the Canterbury District Health Board.
Today was the second day of a meeting of the US New Zealand Partnership Forum.
Lydia Ayden is Christchurch City Council's General Manager of Public Affairs.
James Thompson is the Operations Manager for Civil Defence Christchurch.
Bridget Mills is in Latimer Square at a triage centre.
John Townend is a seismologist for GNS; and an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences.
Paul Burns is the task force leader of Urban Search and Rescue.
Bridget Mills is in the Christchurch central city with one of the rescue teams.
Wayne Mapp is the Minister of Defence.
David Neal is the national programmes manager for the Red Cross. The Christchurch Red Cross response team is out with the fire service, searching buildings for people who might be trapped.
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock reports on a briefing by Mayor Bob Parker.
Peter Davy is the chief executive of Ports of Lyttleton.
Monique Oomen is the communciations manager at Christchurch Airport.
Rob Clark was on the sixth floor of his office building when the quake struck, and got stuck in gridlock leaving the CBD.
The head of the Christchurch cathedral thinks people visiting the church may have been killed there when the quake hit this afternoon. The Dean of Christchurch, Peter Beck, says they rushed to get as many people out of the Cathedral as they could.
Press conference with the Mayor of Christchurch.
St John's Ambulance Operations Director Micheal Brooks.
Amanda Cropp is a Sumner resident.
Prime Minister John Key updates the death toll.
John Townend is a seismologist for GNS; and an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences.
Pete Connors is the New Zealand Transport Agency Operations Manager.
Roger Sutton works for Orion Energy.