Rolleston, South Island, NZ
A very large woman stands wedged between two rows of concrete pillars eating a huge cream bun. She says 'Christmas fare protection... it helps prevent lateral spread!' Context - overeating at Christmas and lateral spreading, which is associated with liquefaction and tends to occur near streams and waterways as the soil mass moves towards them. Reference to the Christchurch earthquake of 4th September 2010.
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage in Richmond. Locals explore extreme lateral spreads in River Road".
An earthquake-damaged bridge, the approach to which has slumped. The photographer comments, "Due to lateral spread and the land slumping the road leading to this bridge has moved down greatly. Just imagine making the street lamps upright and how much that section of road would rise up at the end. When you go over bridges in the east side of Christchurch it is quite a climb up and a big drop down on the other side. The bridges in most cases coped very well, but not so the land leading to them".
A fence along the side of the Avon River near the Retour Restaurant has broken and is leaning towards the river. The photographer comments, "After the Christchurch earthquakes the land moved towards the river Avon and in a lot of places buildings and walls sagged down in the direction of the waterway".
Typical lateral damage to houses caused by the 7.1 magnitude quake in Christchurch at 4.35am on the 4th September 2010.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 3 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
This originally straight farm fence has been laterally displaced at least 2 metres where it crosses the previously unknown Greendale Faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.
Misko Cubrinovski, Civil Engineer, photographed with liquefaction and lateral spreading on Oxford Terrace. Misko's area is geotechnical earthquake engineering and foundation engineering, and he will feature in a UC in the News pull out supplement inThe Press.