Yep, the South Island keeps getting hit. The biggest city of Auckland is said to be away from the fault line, though it is built on a purportedly monogenetic field of 53 volcanoes (monogenetic meanng each volcano only erupts once.)
Interestingly, relatively new buildings in the capital (Wellington) need to be demolished after the latest quake, despite earthquake rating. Will be interesting to learn how this could be: at least one of the buildings that collapsed last time in Christchurch, in hindsight did not meet the required code despite all the usual engineering and regulatory box-ticking.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
