Via TVNZ: Live updates - Christchurch earthquake day five. Excerpt:
3:15am Recap
USAR has completed its initial search of the CBD except for the cordoned off area near the unstable Grand Chancellor Hotel.
The number of missing is 226 with a confirmed death toll of 113. The names of six victims have been released.
80% of Christchurch homes now have power.
The welfare centre at Cowes Stadium has been closed.
3:12am Associated Press has published an account by the parents of 23-year-old Louise Amantillo from the Philippines who is missing in the CTV building.
2:22am Friday's first aftershock was recorded at 1:31am. Magnitude 3.4, depth 9kms and located 10 km south-east of Christchurch.
2:12am An Air Force Hercules C130 from Christchurch landed at Auckland's Whenuapai airport just before midnight with approximately 20 patients on board. Six patients were taken out on stretchers and there were seven ambulances standing by to receive them.
St John Ambulance said the patients were mostly elderly. "They have been displaced due to their own facility in Christchurch now being unstable... we will transport them to facilities in and around the Auckland area," said Acting Duty Operations Manager Greg Scott.
