State of emergency declared after 7.1 earthquake crumbles homes, cracks roads in half and cuts power to region, but left only two people seriously hurt, in what the prime minister calls 'an absolute miracle'Just comparing the similar magnitude 7.0 earthquake in voodoo-following Haiti that killed tens of thousands of people to the one in Christchurch brought to mind the following verse:A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Psalm 91:7And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4Steve Mullin