An aerial photograph of Rowley Avenue School in Hoon Hay.
An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.
Cleaning up the silt and sand from Hoon Hay properties. Here Laura, Robbie, and Ronny are part of the clean-up crew on Wyn Street.
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 aerial photograph of Manning Intermediate School, Hillmorton High School, and Spreydon School in Hoon Hay.
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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.
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.
Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.
Robbie and Nicola watch Laura and a helpful neighbour remove the broken chimney.
The chimney busted right through the wooden beam holding up the roof. I'm told it may an alarming noise.
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!"
Cracks in the roads and foot paths were surprisingly hard to find given the strength of the earthquake.
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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.
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One of the many sand volcanos erupting from the ground after the Christchurch earthquake.
The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.
(It was already opened up mid-way through a repair. But it wasn't on the floor!)
Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.
Roof lost.
This was not that uncommon a site around the neighbourhood.
Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.
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