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Images, UC QuakeStudies

Workers operate a drilling rig inside a Terra Probe truck, which has been raised on jacks to make it stable. The photographer comments, "Another completely different company testing what is below the surface to determine what type of foundations new houses will need. This is in one the blue/green area of earthquake shaken Christchurch. Strangely this is 3 metres away from where the other testing was done".

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hold Tight: Lauren Kys, Isla Redgrave and Isla Nelson, all aged four, hide under the desk during an earthquake drill at the Terrace Kindergarten in Alexandra yesterday. The kindergarten had a dress up day to raise funds for Christchurch kindergartens affected by earthquakes".

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Two workers inspect fuses placed in an embankment during reinforcement work. The photographer comments, "This is the reinforcing of an embankment in the port of Lyttelton, which partly collapsed in the Christchurch earthquakes. They are using the same equipment as used for blowing up rock faces to mend them".