The Samples

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A box containing drilling cores from soil sampling. The photographer comments, "These are the samples from drilling near my home. As you can see they are not so much samples as sand piles. The drill in a nearby street went down 20m and it was sand all the way. This is the box of samples from the ground level to 4.6m deep".

You Know the Drill

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Workers operate a drilling rig, sampling soil as part of EQC's geotechnical investigation of TC3 land. The photographer comments, "The work of getting 'soil' samples from all the areas marked as green/blue zones in Christchurch. These areas may be susceptible to liquefaction if a major earthquake occurs. The soil samples were a failure as all they found was sand".

Ruth Gardner's Blog 20/04/2011: Shaken Samples

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An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 April 2011 entitled, "Shaken Samples".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 11 (46)

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A volunteer with paint samples used to paint one of Gap Filler's painted pianos.

Grant Wilson Liquefaction Photograph 101

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A photograph of a liquefaction sample taken by a UC Geology student from a residential property in Bexley.

Grant Wilson Liquefaction Photograph 058

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A photograph of a UC Geology student collecting a liquefaction sample from a BMX track near Anzac Drive in Bexley.

Grant Wilson Liquefaction Photograph 059

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A photograph of a UC Geology student collecting a liquefaction sample from a BMX track near Anzac Drive in Bexley.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 0874

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Coal sampling, Lyttelton Port. Protective walls of containers for boulder protection".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 0872

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Coal sampling, Lyttelton Port. Protective walls of containers for boulder protection".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 0873

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Coal sampling, Lyttelton Port. Protective walls of containers for boulder protection".

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 336

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Students from the University of Canterbury marine research unit taking samples of the seabed to test the effects of the liquefaction on marine life.

Fairfax Video, February 2013 (7)

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A video of an interview with John Turner, owner of Ambience Tiling, about the restoration of the tiles in New Regent Street. Turner talks about working with SCE Stone & Design, who sent the sample tiles to China where they were machine replicated. The tiles took six to eight weeks to arrive, with about 10,500 new tiles produced. The video also includes an interview with Iain Taylor, a tiler at Ambience Tiling, about the retiling process.