During the night Sunday, the 13th to Monday November 14, 2016, A strong earthquake of magnitude 7,8 on the Richter scale rocked New Zealand, causing extensive damage and killing two people.

In a rural area around the ypokentro earthquake in Kaikoura town, a helicopter recorded the presence of two cows with a calf that miraculously survived, remaining trapped several meters high on a mound of dirt that was retained after the landslide.