chch.live a year, in depth

2026 in the archive

22 records carry this year, up 2100% on 2019, the nearest recorded year before it, the earliest dated , the latest . Everything links out to where the original sits. A date on a record is the record’s own fact, and a record count is the shelf’s coverage of a year, not a count of what happened in it.

In the archive

The feed’s ledger holds 49,819 reports filed inside the year, down 28% on 2025's 69,233, January its busiest month (7,140). A count of filings, not of the year’s events.

Filed inside 2026, newest first, dates somebody filed, not dates anything happened:

The ground was still moving, 3 magnitude-3+ quakes recorded inside 2026, the biggest a M3.1, 4 km deep. The whole sequence is counted at /sequence, the story in plain language.

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