Below is a selection of some of your letters from the last week:

Hey i wana know is the post about the counties faults really getting us “kicked out” or is this just a Prank? cause im kinda worried and wana know if its 100% before i start planning to gtfo

From Stuart

dear sir/madam

Just wanting to let you know you should get your facts straight before publishing that a whole country has been evacuated, what a load of shit, sorry,but I live in chch, New Zealand and our country has not been evacuated due to the quake.

Thank you very much From Rewa Hello I don’t know whether your claim is true or not but was wondering what your sources were? No doubt it’s likely to cause quite a panic as it’s spreading like wildfire on Facebook & is in the top search results on Google. Is this true? If so could you tell me where you got it from? Or if it’s just a hoax.

Cheers, Damien Is this story for real or is this some kind of a joke? If it is a joke it is a very sick joke to publish!! Please advise if it is real or not as I have family in NZ I am very concerned about. From Jan Really? We have to all leave the country? What utter bovine excretion! Almost all of the country is fine except for a few isolated spots. Get your facts right.

From “A Kiwi who ain’t moving”

To who it may concern,

Please remove your fucking fake bullshit claim about Civil Defence evacuates whole of New Zealand after engineers discover structural issues with the country This claim in untruthful and will be reported to the correct aurthorities for causing potienal mass hysteria From Cody I am a Maori and I live in New Zealand. Your article on the evacuation of those who live in NZ is a load of crap. Who ever allows this type of non sense to be published is dumb. where did you get your information from. No one is catching flights trying to evacuate. What a load of shit!!! From Arahia HELLO, Just want to ask the credibility of these report shared in Facebook 18/11/2016 at 8:42 pm http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/civil-defence-evacuates-whole-of-new-zealand-after-engineers-discover-structural-issues-with-the-country/“ To be very clear, we are calling for the immediate evacuation of areas in this zone,” said Civil Defence director Sarah Stuart-Black, pointing to a map of the zone, which encompassed the whole country. “If you are in this zone, we ask you to leave as soon as possible, and remain out of this area until further inspections can take place.” IS THIS TRUE? IF CORRECT, WHAT ARE THOSE AREAS ON THE MAP, it was not clear enough to read… Can you email back what are those areas pointed out in the map?

From Alicia