RESENDING STORY TO CORRECT THUMBNAIL IMAGE<br/> ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck near the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday (December 25), New Zealand's civil defence said, prompting the evacuation of some public buildings and sending goods toppling from shelves.<br/> Christchurch, the largest city in New Zealand's South Island, is recovering from a quake measuring 6.3 which killed<br/> 182 people in February, and caused up to NZ$20 billion (15.5 billion US dollars) in damage.<br/> Christchurch police said there were no reports of casualties or widespread damage, although one person had been<br/> reported hurt at a shopping mall and taken to hospital.<br/> The quake was centred 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the city at a very shallow depth of 8 km (5 miles), and struck as<br/> shoppers thronged malls in the lead-up to Christmas.
