I've Lit the Fuse, What Next?

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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".

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A pile of rubble and steel reinforcement from the Chubb Lock & Safe building on the corner of Kilmore and Manchester Streets.

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A close up of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

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A close up of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

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An excavator sits on top of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

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An excavator sits on top of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2443

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Steel reinforcement on the exterior wall, next to it is a vacant site left after the demolition of a building. Outside the fence is an aqua Ford Thunderbird car.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2442

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Steel reinforcement on the exterior wall, next to it is a vacant site left after the demolition of a building. Outside the fence is an aqua Ford Thunderbird car.

The Earthquake Worms

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A digitally manipulated photograph of twisted reinforcing rods amongst the rubble from the demolition of QEII. The photographer comments, "These rarely seen worms live in the pressurised earth under the foundations of buildings. They need a damp soil and be under at least 100 pounds of pressure per square inch. After the destructive force of an earthquake they swiftly rise to the surface through gaps in the rubble. Unfortunately they quickly die and then crystallise as hard as iron in the dry low pressure air".