Right-lateral offset, Canterbury Fault Rupture

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Rolleston, South Island, NZ

Road cracks

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Rolleston, South Island, NZ

Destruction

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Rolleston/Burnham, South Island, NZ This used to be a perfectly straight and flat road!

Christchurch Arts Centre

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Canterbury Earthquake 7.1

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Rolleston/Burnham, South Island, NZ It's been a busy few weeks! Was away on geology fieldtrips all the previous two weeks, then on Saturday morning 4th September 2010 at 4.35 am we got woken in Westport to a reasonable but very long earthquake. My husband was back in Christchurch at the time and texted me saying "are you ok?". I replied, "yes!"...