NU Online News Service, Feb. 22, 11:01 a.m. EST

As insurers report high losses and increased loss estimates from the last New Zealand earthquake, another temblor has rocked the same area.

Catastrophe modeler EQECAT put a damage estimate of more than $1 billion on Monday afternoon's magnitude 6.3 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand.

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