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US Embassy Photograph 17
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Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue breaking through the floor of a building which was severely damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
US Embassy Photograph 19
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Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue breaking through the floor of a building which was severely damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
WEMO ERT Set 1 - February 2011 - Photograph 68
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A photograph of the front door of the O-Cha Thai Cuisine restaurant in the former Canterbury Times Building on Gloucester Street. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the windows.
Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 124
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A photograph of the store room of Quinns on Papanui Road. The front walls of the building have crumbled, exposing the rooms inside. Shelves of shoes can be seen, many of them collapsed.
Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 125
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A photograph of the store room of Quinns on Papanui Road. The front walls of the building have crumbled, exposing the rooms inside. Decorations such as a mushroom and grass can be seen.
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 594
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central city with the BNZ at the bottom right, the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Westpac Building and Holiday Inn clustered in the bottom centre, and Latimer Square upper".
BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 227
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A yellow sticker on the door of a house in Worcester Street reading, "Restricted use. No entry except on essential business. Warning: This building has been damaged and its structural safety is questionable. Earthquake aftershocks present danger. Enter only at own risk. Subsequent events may result in increased damage and danger, changing this assessment. Reinspection may be required. The damage is as described below: partial collapse of longitudinal walls". Following on from this are the specific conditions that must be complied with to enable entry into the property, the inspector's identification details, and the date and time the building was inspected. At the bottom the form reads, "Do not remove this placard. Placed by order of the territorial authority Christchurch City Council".
Image 1 - Helping Hand for Lyttelton Museum
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An image from an Air Force News April 2011 article titled, "Helping Hand for Lyttelton Museum". The image depicts the damaged Lyttelton Museum with a broken top wall and wire fencing around the building.
Photograph by Neil Macbeth 554
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A view across Armagh Street to the Cranmer Centre. Scaffolding has been constructed on the building's Armagh Street face, while on the Montreal Street side masonry from the walls has collapsed onto the road.
US Embassy Photograph 18
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Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue, breaking through the floor of a building which was severely damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Photograph by Neil Macbeth 600
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The British Hotel on the corner of Oxford Street and Norwich Quay. The top of the building has crumbled into the street below and wire fencing has been placed around it as a cordon.
WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 037
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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team inside a building in the Christchurch central city. Silt and water from liquefaction has covered large sections of the concrete floor.
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 016
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Plastic barriers and fencing around a demolition site at the corner of Cranford and Westminster Streets. Different types of building rubble have been sorted into piles, and a concrete block still remains on-site.
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 714
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The plan for this building in Lichfield Street (as relayed to Ross by the contractors) is to remove the roof and open as a bar within 3 weeks".
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 715
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The plan for this building in Lichfield Street (as relayed to Ross by the contractors) is to remove the roof and open as a bar within 3 weeks".
Sonja Farmer Photograph 49
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A photograph looking south down Colombo Street from the Avon River bridge. In the distance, the Copthorne Hotel and Forsyth Barr building can be seen. A collection of cranes are parked along the street.
WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 032
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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team sitting outside City Care on Antigua Street. The City Care building has been blocked off with wire fencing and police tape.
WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 122
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A photograph of a car on Gloucester Street which has been crushed by falling bricks from the Canterbury Times and Star building. There is a pile of bricks on the front of the car.
WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 065
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A photograph an Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team pretending to break into a car inside a building in the Christchurch city centre. The car is a 1968 Plymouth Road Runner Super Bee.
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 132
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A tent on Worcester Street set up for the soldiers stationed around the cordon. In the background, the damaged Our City O-Tautahi Building can be seen with steel bracing holding up the front.
Earthquake Tetris
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Broken windows on Leicester House. Broken filing cabinets and other fittings lie on the ground in front of the building. The photographer comments, "As you can see the game did not last very long".
Self-Management of Disaster Risk and Uncertainty: The Role of Preventive H…
Research papers, University of Canterbury Library
One of the great challenges facing human systems today is how to prepare for, manage, and adapt successfully to the profound and rapid changes wreaked by disasters. Wellington, New Zealand, is a capital city at significant risk of devastating earthquake and tsunami, potentially requiring mass evacuations with little or short notice. Subsequent hardship and suffering due to widespread property damage and infrastructure failure could cause large areas of the Wellington Region to become uninhabitable for weeks to months. Previous research has shown that positive health and well-being are associated with disaster-resilient outcomes. Preventing adverse outcomes before disaster strikes, through developing strengths-based skill sets in health-protective attitudes and behaviours, is increasingly advocated in disaster research, practise, and management. This study hypothesised that well-being constructs involving an affective heuristic play vital roles in pathways to resilience as proximal determinants of health-protective behaviours. Specifically, this study examined the importance of health-related quality of life and subjective well-being in motivating evacuation preparedness, measured in a community sample (n=695) drawn from the general adult population of Wellington’s isolated eastern suburbs. Using a quantitative epidemiological approach, the study measured the prevalence of key quality of life indicators (physical and mental health, emotional well-being or “Sense of Coherence”, spiritual well-being, social well-being, and life satisfaction) using validated psychometric scales; analysed the strengths of association between these indicators and the level of evacuation preparedness at categorical and continuous levels of measurement; and tested the predictive power of the model to explain the variance in evacuation preparedness activity. This is the first study known to examine multi-dimensional positive health and global well-being as resilient processes for engaging in evacuation preparedness behaviour. A cross-sectional study design and quantitative survey were used to collect self-report data on the study variables; a postal questionnaire was fielded between November 2008 and March 2009 to a sampling frame developed through multi-stage cluster randomisation. The survey response rate was 28.5%, yielding a margin of error of +/- 3.8% with 95% confidence and 80% statistical power to detect a true correlation coefficient of 0.11 or greater. In addition to the primary study variables, data were collected on demographic and ancillary variables relating to contextual factors in the physical environment (risk perception of physical and personal vulnerability to disaster) and the social environment (through the construct of self-determination), and other measures of disaster preparedness. These data are reserved for future analyses. Results of correlational and regression analyses for the primary study variables show that Wellingtonians are highly individualistic in how their well-being influences their preparedness, and a majority are taking inadequate action to build their resilience to future disaster from earthquake- or tsunami-triggered evacuation. At a population level, the conceptual multi-dimensional model of health-related quality of life and global well-being tested in this study shows a positive association with evacuation preparedness at statistically significant levels. However, it must be emphasised that the strength of this relationship is weak, accounting for only 5-7% of the variability in evacuation preparedness. No single dimension of health-related quality of life or well-being stands out as a strong predictor of preparedness. The strongest associations for preparedness are in a positive direction for spiritual well-being, emotional well-being, and life satisfaction; all involve a sense of existential meaningfulness. Spiritual well-being is the only quality of life variable making a statistically significant unique contribution to explaining the variance observed in the regression models. Physical health status is weakly associated with preparedness in a negative direction at a continuous level of measurement. No association was found at statistically significant levels for mental health status and social well-being. These findings indicate that engaging in evacuation preparedness is a very complex, holistic, yet individualised decision-making process, and likely involves highly subjective considerations for what is personally relevant. Gender is not a factor. Those 18-24 years of age are least likely to prepare and evacuation preparedness increases with age. Multidimensional health and global well-being are important constructs to consider in disaster resilience for both pre-event and post-event timeframes. This work indicates a need for promoting self-management of risk and building resilience by incorporating a sense of personal meaning and importance into preparedness actions, and for future research into further understanding preparedness motivations.
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2159
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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Octagon Live Restaurant (formerly Trinity Congregational Church) on the corner of Worcester and Manchester Streets".
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2107
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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A demolition site on Lichfield Street, where further damage occurred as a result of the 23 December 2011 earthquakes".
Umut Akguzel Photograph 063
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A photograph of traffic leaving Lichfield Street taken from the intersection with Manchester Street shortly after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A police officer is directing a crowd of people who have evacuated from buildings in the central city.
Umut Akguzel Photograph 496
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A photograph looking north up Liverpool Street from the intersection with Cashel Street. On the right, a pile of collapsed scaffolding can be seen on the road and two excavators are demolishing a building in the distance.
Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett, 2011:02:23 22:53:57
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. People searching for missing family and friends report to the Papanui Police to file reports. Dr. Rose Ruiz and Dr. Len after reporting people missing in the CTV building".
Umut Akguzel Photograph 090
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A photograph of a crowd of people walking towards the intersection of Manchester and St Asaph Streets shortly after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The front of a building has collapsed in the distance, spilling onto the street.
Umut Akguzel Photograph 243
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A photograph of SBS Bank on the corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street. The lower windows have been boarded up with plywood and wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
Umut Akguzel Photograph 353
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A photograph of the Moko cafe building on the corner of Gloucester Street and New Regent Street. Scaffolding is being used to support part of the awning and a yellow sticker can be seen on the door.