On September 4 , 2010 , it was severely hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake , causing immense damage . Consequently , the St Paul 's parish church and school which had suffered greatly from the effects of the quake , were forced to relocate their church services to the Marian College chapel and the students to the Catholic Cathedral College site , for the following couple of years estimated that it would take to rebuild . The college accommodated the entire primary school community of St Paul 's School for a short time . But the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake ( 6.3 magnitude ) caused far worse devastation to the city than the September 2010 earthquake . Parts of Catholic Cathedral College were under the unstable 400-ton dome of the Catholic Cathedral . Because the dome was in imminent danger of collapse , the college left the site and St Paul 's School was moved to a site which the Minister of Education made available in Champion St
7.1 magnitude earthquake
2010 Canterbury earthquake
Dallington, New Zealand