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This has made a huge mess for the residents to clean up. I heard on the news that homes have been damaged by subsidence in areas of earthquake-caused liquefaction like this.
This one was really flowing out of the ground.
Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.
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Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.
Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.
(I righted the bird bath after the initial earthquake. None of the after-shocks were sufficient to knock it over again.)
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And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.
An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.
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These were scattered across the park.
The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.
Lots of people were out and about in the streets checking on everyone after the earthquake. When it was clear that everyone was OK, the sand volcanos became the feature of interest.
Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.
It would have been a glorious Spring day in Christchurch had it not been for the magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 4:30 am.
All the water and silt you can see covering the street in this photo erupted from the ground following the earthquake.
Yes, it was a joke. The tours, that is, not the yard filled with earthquake-caused sand volcanos. They were very real. You can see one covering the driveway in this photo.
The signs read as follows.
"Tours run 1/2 hourly.
$5.25 admission.
Eftpos unavailable."
"If you think this is bad... you should see the back!"
