Knox Church, Cnr Bealey Ave & Victoria St (08.03.2011)
City
Christchurch
Canterbury
New Zealand
© 2011 Phil Le Cren
Photo Taken With:
Canon EOS 1000D
+ Canon EF/EF-S lenses
+ 10.1 effective megapixels
+ 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor
+ Eye-level pentamirror SLR
+ Live View shooting.
+ EOS Built-in Sensor cleanin...
The base of the tower on the right of this picture has sunk about 25cm so that the lower course of bricks have disappeared below ground level. Meanwhile the other end of the building has sunk about 50cm splitting the building into thirds. The sand you can see is what came bubbling up out of the ground due to liquifaction. Unfortunately the build...
20100905_3349_1D3-24 South New Brighton bridge mevement - Christchurch earthquake
The South Brighton bridge abutment (city side). Bridge looks fine, just both approaches have moved A LOT!
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20100904_3322_1D3-200 Bridge Street bridge, Christchurch earthquake
South Brighton Bridge. See the gap between the abutment and the bridge itself (just to right of lower person).
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20100904_3308_1D3-24 Road crack - Christchurch earthquake
Outside our house after the 7.1 Richter Canterbury earthquake on September 4 2010
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20100905_3347_1D3-32 Bridge Street split depth - Christchurch earthquake
The city side of the South Brighton bridge. Approaches on both sides will need extensive work before this bridge can re-open.
Bridge opened for traffic less than a week later, but still (23/09) has 30kmh speed restriction.
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20100904_3315_1D3-24 Broken footpath - Christchurch earthquake
The footpath besides ANZAC Drive and the Bexley Wetlands. Liquefaction silt from well underground has flowed to the surface.
Photo taken less than three hours after the 4:35am earthquake.
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Nearing the end of demolition of the Westend Jewellers site on the corner of Worcester and Manchester Streets, Christchurch. Badly damaged in the September 4th earthquake.
20100918_3497_1D3-24 Porritt Park - Christchurch earthquake
The Avon River loop around Porritt Park has risen with the quake. Huge cracks are all through Porritt Park (rowing, hockey and cricket venue). The main section of the river is in a man made cut behind the buildings in the background of this pic.
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20100905_3346_1D3-24 Bridge Street cracking - Christchurch earthquake
The city side of the South Brighton bridge. Approaches on both sides will need extensive work before this bridge can re-open.
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20100904_3309_1D3-24 Christchurch earthquake
Wairoa Street
Another web site used this image (with a link to this Flickr page), so the view count sky rocketed.
CERA (Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority)/Tonkin & Taylor also used this image on page 13 of a Land Damage presentation on 23/06/11. This was also released as a PDF. A few mo...
20100918_3500_1D3-60 Porritt Park - Christchurch earthquake
The bridge at the north end of Porritt Park, Avondale.
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20100913_3424_1D3-400 Castle Rock
The damage to Castle Rock, overlooking the Heathcote Valley from the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th.
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20100904_3313_1D3-24 Anzac Drive, Christchurch earthquake
Kenta with crack in ANZAC Drive
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Christchurch city experienced a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on September 4 at 4:35 am. The epicentre was 40 km west of the city. It was the most damaging earthquake in New Zealand since the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931, but there was no loss of life. It was fortunate the earthquake occurred when the central city streets were deserted, as there w...
Castle Rock above Heathcote, showing damage (and two very large pieces in the foreground) that came down during the 7.1 quake on 4th September.
20100904_3304_1D3-24 Christchurch earthquake
CD racks and bookshelf in lounge. Amazing that the glass vase on the glass topped coffee table didn't move!
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20100905_3357_1D3-105 Seabreeze Close - Christchurch earthquake
Annette Preen's house in background. See the angle the front of house is on. This maybe a write off as it is trashed inside with liquification occurring right under the house and bursting through concrete floor. Annette was featured on TV3 news tonight. Go to TV3 website to see ne...
Two of the large boulders (larger than a house or two) that came down from
Castle Rock (see the fence in front of the boulders).
20081011_1524_1D3-45 Deans Homestead October 2008
The historic Deans Homestead 23 months ago. Now destroyed in the Canterbury earthquake of September 4th 2010. This photo was taken on the PSNZ 2008 Southern Regional Photographic Convention bus trip.
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Nearly two weeks after the 7.1 earthquake, and a week after demolition started, this is the end of The Valley Inn in Heathcote.
20100918_3507_1D3-47 Pumping Station - Christchurch earthquake
The pumping station at the corner of New Brighton Road and Palmers Road. New Brighon Road is still closed (2 weeks after quake) at this point.
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20100908_3393_1D3-28 Removing liquefaction silt - Christchurch earthquake
The cleanup continues.
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20100904_3326_1D3-24 Ascot TV in Sydenham - Christchurch earthquake
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20100905_3336_1D3-24 Ground movement Pacific Park - Christchurch earthquake
A house in Pacific Park (Bexley) that borders the Bexley Wetlands. Land moved towards the wetlands and the closer to wetlands the more severe the damage.
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A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch.
Victoria Street. So sad to see history die - both buildings and business. Sign on the back wall says, "You gotta be there Christchurch" - sadly ironic!
Given a bit of a HDR process to add some of what I was "feeling" at the time.
Rolleston/Burnham, South Island, NZ
It's been a busy few weeks! Was away on geology fieldtrips all the previous two weeks, then on Saturday morning 4th September 2010 at 4.35 am we got woken in Westport to a reasonable but very long earthquake. My husband was back in Christchurch at the time and texted me saying "are you ok?". I replied, "yes!"...
When I lived in Christchurch back in 2004-2005, this was a building I went past on the bus every day to get to and from work in the city.
After the big quake on 04/09/10 (7.1 magnitude), its been seriously damaged. As have many more of the shops in this area.
Thankfully no lives were lost in the quake, and I'm glad I wasnt there to feel it eith...
My house (bought in March 2004) till the government procured it in October 2012, is finally being demolished. It will be an empty section in a couple of days, once they rip up the concrete base.
Note the rainbow on right.
20140522_8951_EOS M-22 Demolition
Of what many in Christchurch know as the Millers building, but for many recent years was the home to the Christchurch City Council, till just a week or two before the first earthquake of 2010. Now, in mid-2014 it is finally being demolished after nearly 45 months empty. A bus is leaving the new (temporary) bu...
