A photograph of sparrows bathing themselves in liquefaction silt.
A photograph of sparrows bathing themselves in liquefaction silt.
Silt from liquefaction along the edge of a house.
A "sand volcano" of liquefaction silt in a garden.
Liquefaction silt fills the stream running through Porrit Park.
Liquefaction silt and cracking in a paddock near Kaiapoi.
Liquefaction silt on a grassed area in New Brighton.
Liquefaction silt fills the stream running through Porrit Park.
Silt from liquefaction outside the entrance to Merivale Mall.
A misaligned brick wall in front of a property with silt still piled up around it. During the earthquake, liquefaction drove silt to the surface where it erupted out of the ground like a volcano and formed a pile like the one seen here.
Dried liquefaction silt in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "Here you can see the very fine surface layer of liquefaction starting to shrink, crack and then curl up on itself".
Members of the central and lower North Island Territorial Forces clearing silt from a resident's garden in Christchurch. Sapper Nelson Lambert from Palmerston North can be seen pushing a wheelbarrow.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Anzac Drive close to the Avon River showing the liquefaction and ground tearing".
Extensive damage caused by liquefaction in Bracken Street, Avonside. A pile of liquefaction can be seen in front of this house. After the earthquake, many people had to dig this silt out of their properties and place it on the road to be collected.
Piles of liquefaction silt on St Johns Street in Woolston.
Flooding and liquefaction silt on St Johns Street in Woolston.
Liquefaction silt and portaloos on Peterborough Street in Christchurch Central.
Liquefaction silt piled along the sides of a residential street.
Flooding and liquefaction silt on St Johns Street in Woolston.
Liquefaction silt and flooding in a car park in Kaiapoi.
Flooding and liquefaction silt on St Johns Street in Woolston.
The driveway and footpath are covered in silt from liquefaction.
A 'sand volcano' of liquefaction silt in Bexley. The photographer comments, "Liquefaction is just a mixture of sand and water squeezed up from the ground, but with a little imagination it has a beauty in its untouched state".
Dried liquefaction silt in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "I found this face amongst the liquefaction. It is like one of them diagrams where they segment different parts of the brain depending on their functions".
A thick layer of liquefaction silt in the Avon-Heathcote Estuary.
Large piles of liquefaction silt at a dump on Breezes Road.
Three men digging silt out of storm water drains in Burwood.
Liquefaction silt and weeds on the footpath outside the central library.
An image from a Army News March 2011 article titled, "Territorial Force". The image shows members of the Auckland and Northland Territorial Units clearing silt from a resident's garden in east Christchurch. The resident is out in the garden helping out.
A sand volcano in the Halswell Primary School grounds near the playground. Sand volcanoes were caused by liquefaction where the soil loses its strength during the earthquake and the silt rises upwards, ejecting out of a hole like magma in a volcano.