Transcript of Steve Savory's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Jacqui's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Lorraine's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of June Boslem's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Summary of oral history interview with Helen King about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Transcript of Roman's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of David Penney's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of John Brownie's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Bob Flaus's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Leith Graydon's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 23 April 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 10 July 2014 entitled, "Convention Concept".
A letter written by Roz Johnson to family members overseas.
A press release from the Office of the Press Secretary in the US White House announcing the deployment of a US Agency for International Development (USAID) Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The response team included the Los Angeles County Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue Team who assisted with the search and rescue efforts.
Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue Team conferring in a tent full of equipment in Latimer Square. Latimer Square was set up as a temporary headquarters for emergency management personnel after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Caption reads: "People brought food to the area and we were grateful. It was a disaster but we were coping. Our house was broken but that didn’t mean we had to be."
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "After the recent earthquake in Christchurch, Environment Waikato has released information that shows the Waikato people are under-prepared for a natural disaster. Adrian Pittari, University of Waikato Volcanologist".
A article by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman originally published in The Press newspaper.
A video of a presentation by Richard Conlin during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Resilience, Poverty, and Seismic Culture".The abstract for this presentation reads as follows: A strategy of resilience is built around the recognition that effective emergency response requires community involvement and mobilization. It further recognizes that many of the characteristics that equip communities to respond most effectively to short term emergencies are also characteristics that build strong communities over the long term. Building resilient communities means integrating our approaches to poverty, community engagement, economic development, and housing into a coherent strategy that empowers community members to engage with each other and with other communities. In this way, resilience becomes a complementary concept to sustainability. This requires an asset-based change strategy where external agencies meet communities where they are, in their own space, and use collective impact approaches to work in partnership. This also requires understanding and assessing poverty, including physical, financial, and social capital in their myriad manifestations. Poverty is not exclusively a matter of class. It is a complex subject, and different communities manifest multiple versions of poverty, which must be respected and understood through the asset-based lens. Resilience is a quality of a community and a system, and develops over time as a result of careful analysis of strengths and vulnerabilities and taking actions to increase competencies and reduce risk situations. Resilience requires maintenance and must be developed in a way that includes practicing continuous improvement and adaptation. The characteristics of a resilient community include both physical qualities and 'soft infrastructure', such as community knowledge, resourcefulness, and overall health. This presentation reviews the experience of some earlier disasters, outlines a working model of how emergency response, resilience, and poverty interact and can be addressed in concert, and concludes with a summary of what the 2010 Chilean earthquake tells us about how a 'seismic culture' can function effectively in communities even when government suffers from unexpected shortcomings.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 20 September 2013 entitled, "Show and tell".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 9 March 2011 entitled, "Another baking day".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 22 February 2011 entitled, "Another big earthquake".
A story submitted by Ginny Larsen to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 December 2010 entitled, "Earthquake - again!".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 December 2010 entitled, "Earthquake 27/12".