Video taken by Newshub news service from a helicopter near the small town of Kaikoura showed two adult cattle and a calf stranded on a chunk of land that had been ripped apart during the earthquake.
Newshub reported that two cows and a calf were rescued. They were part of a larger group of 14 cows.
Kaikoura is close to the epicenter of the earthquake. The quake also was strongly felt to the south in Christchurch but was far less damaging than a smaller 2011 earthquake that devastated the city and killed 185 people, the AP reported.
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