Updated April 06, 2017. People are often startled by their first encounter with a house centipede. I often receive photos of them with the question, What the heck is this thing I found in my house?!. Scary as it may seem, the house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, is really quite harmless.
Current local time in Christchurch New Zealand is 12:34 PM NZST. Today is Thursday, August 10, 2017 in Christchurch.
The city's main television transmitter is located atop Sugarloaf, in the Port Hills due south of the city centre, and broadcasts all major national television channels as well as the two local channels. All television channels in Christchurch have been broadcast in digital since analogue switch-off on 28 April 2013.n Saturday 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch and the central Canterbury region at 4:35 am. Located near Darfield, west of the city at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), it caused widespread damage to the city and minor injuries, but no direct fatalities.