A story submitted by Ginny Larsen to the QuakeStories website.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority will be travelling the length of New Zealand this week to drum up investment in the rebuild of Christchurch's city centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 18 March 2014 entitled, "Function for Fortune".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 10 April 2014 entitled, "Choked with Change".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 25 June 2014 entitled, "Ecclesiastical Enhancement".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 15 March 2014 entitled, "Festival of Fables".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 08 March 2014 entitled, "Low-key Liberation".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 4 January 2014 entitled, "A Round Christchurch".
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This paper concerns the explicit consideration of near-fault directivity in conventional ground motion prediction models, and its implication for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) in New Zealand. The proposed approach utilises recently developed models by Shahi & Baker (2011), which account for both the 'narrowband' nature of the directivity pulse on spectral ordinates, and the probability of pulse occurrence at the site of interest. Furthermore, in order to correctly consider directivity, distributed seismicity sources are considered as finite-faults, as opposed to their (incorrect) conventional treatment as point-sources. The significance of directivity on hazard analysis results is illustrated for various vibration periods at generic sites located in Christchurch and Otira, two locations whose seismic hazard is comprised of notably different seismic sources. When compared to the PSHA results considering directivity and distributed seismicity as finite faults, it is shown that the NZS1170.5:2004 directivity factor is notably unconservative for all vibration periods in Otira (i.e. high seismic hazard region); and unconservative for Christchurch at short-to-moderate vibration periods ( < 3s); but conservative at long periods ( > 4s).
The abundance of cone penetration test (CPT) data from subsurface explorations in Christchurch and the surrounding areas provides a useful source of information for a characterization of the near surface shear wave velocity ( ) profile for the region. A portion of the investigations were conducted using seismic CPT, enabling the comparison of measured shear wave velocity with CPT data, and subsequently the evaluation of existing CPT- correlations for applicability to Canterbury-specific soils. The existing correlations are shown to be biased, generally over-predicting the observed with depth, thus demonstrating the need for a Canterbury-specific CPT- correlation.
Today the Royal couple head to Christchurch, a city with which the Prince has built strong ties, since the earthquakes rocked the region three years ago.
The man who designed the CTV building that collapsed in the Christchurch earthquake has effectively scuttled any investigation into him by the Institution of Professional Engineers.
The EQC has got the green light to start settling the claims of thousands of Christchurch people whose homes became more at risk of flooding after the earthquakes.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 21 January 2014 entitled, "Weekend wanderings".
A story submitted by Pauline to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jennifer to the QuakeStories website.
Lyttelton singer-songwriter Adam McGrath talks about songwriting, free concerts after the Christchurch earthquakes, and lending his song - and its title - to TV mini-series Hope and Wire.
The Canterbury Women's Club had their first function since the 22nd Feburary 2011 earthquake last weekend, we speak with their president Margaret Arnald as the club celebrates it's 101st anniversary.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 02 May 2014 entitled, "Widespread Weariness".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 26 May 2014 entitled, "Shapely Shadows".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 12 March 2014 entitled, "Love on Liverpool".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 10 July 2014 entitled, "Convention Concept".
A video of quotes from members of the public about the Christchurch Cathedral. The quotes are superimposed over images of the public viewing the earthquake-damaged cathedral.
Three years after the earthquakes robbed Christchurch of its chance to host England during the Rugby World Cup, the tourists finally made it onto a Canterbury field.
Earthquake damaged building on a Walk around the city, May 1, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. Demolition work on Christchurch's "distinctive" former civic building is under way. The category-2 heritage building was designed by G A J Hart and opened in 1939 as the Miller's department store. It featured the South Island's first escalator, which...
Peter Marshall is managing director of architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, part of the team selected to carry out the task of the redesign of Christchurch after the earthquakes.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 27 July 2014 entitled, "(Re) Openings".
A story submitted by Alasdair Wright to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 09 May 2014 entitled, "Restoring the River".