A lawyer for the husband of a woman who died in the Christchurch earthquake says a coming inquest will show rifts within the Fire Service did hamper rescue efforts.
At one minute to seven last night, two beams of light were switched on to commemorate the anniversary of the first Canterbury earthquake.
The word 'hope' and a heart-shape looped around the St Paul's Trinity Pacific Church.
The words 'Faith' and 'hope' looped around the fences of St Paul's Trinity Pacific Church.
An audio recording of Rev Darryl Tempero's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 3 October 2012. At the time, Darryl Tempero was a Minister at Hope Presbyterian Hornby, the Presbyterian Earthquake Coordinator, and the Co-Chair of Christchurch Post Earthquake Churches' Forum.
A transcript of Rev Darryl Tempero's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 3 October 2012. At the time, Darryl Tempero was a Minister at Hope Presbyterian Hornby, the Presbyterian Earthquake Coordinator, and the Co-Chair of Christchurch Post Earthquake Churches' Forum.
Oblique convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates is accommodated in the northern South Island by the Marlborough Fault System. The Hope Fault is the southern of four major dextral strike-slip faults of this system. Hanmer Basin is a probable segment boundary between the Hope River and Conway segments of the Hope Fault. The Conway segment is transpressional and shows increasing structural complexity near the segment boundary at Hanmer Basin, with multiple Late Quaternary traces, and fault-parallel folding in response to across-fault shortening. Between Hossack Station and Hanmer Basin a crush zone in excess of one kilometre wide is exposed in incised streams and rivers. The crush zone has an asymmetrical geometry about the active trace of the Hope Fault, being only 100-300 metres wide south of the fault, and more than 500 metres wide north of the fault. The most intense deformation of Torlesse bedrock occurs at the south side of the fault zone, indicating that strain is accommodated against the fault footwall. North of the fault deformation is less intense, but occurs over a wider area. The wide fault zone at Hossack Station may reflect divergence of the Hanmer Fault, a major splay of the Hope Fault. At Hossack Station, the Hope Fault has accommodated at least 260 metres of dextral displacement during the Holocene. Dating of abandoned stream channels, offset by the Hope Fault, indicated a Late Holocene dextral slip-rate of 18±8 mm-¹ for the west end of the Conway segment. Using empirical formulae and inferred fault parameters, the expected magnitude of an earthquake generated by the Conway segment is M6.9 to M7.4; for an exceedence probability of 10%, the magnitude is M7.7 to M7.9. Effects associated with coseismic rupture of the Conway segment include shaking of up to MMIX along the ruptured fault and at Hanmer Basin. Uplift at the east end of Hanmer Basin, in conjunction with subsidence at the southwest margin of the basin, is resulting in the development of onlapping stratigraphy. Seismic reflection profiles support this theory. Possible along-fault migration of the basin is inferred to be a consequence of non-parallelism of the master faults.
The Christchurch earthquake looks to have dashed hopes of a pickup in household spending this year.
The "White Lights of Hope" spotlights shining into the sky at night from the central city.
Lara discusses Gaylene Preston's Hope and Wire from the perspective of a person who was in the Christchurch earthquakes.
An video recording of Rev Darryl Tempero's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 3 October 2012. At the time, Darryl Tempero was a Minister at Hope Presbyterian Hornby, the Presbyterian Earthquake Coordinator, and the Co-Chair of Christchurch Post Earthquake Churches' Forum.
In earthquake-ravaged Canterbury, a state of emergency remains in place despite hopes it would be lifted today.
Detail of the 'Ark of Hope' by Wongi Wilson in Sydenham Square, corner of Brougham and Colombo Streets.
Detail of the 'Ark of Hope' by Wongi Wilson in Sydenham Square, corner of Brougham and Colombo Streets.
Detail of the 'Ark of Hope' by Wongi Wilson in Sydenham Square, corner of Brougham and Colombo Streets.
Detail of the 'Ark of Hope' by Wongi Wilson in Sydenham Square, corner of Brougham and Colombo Streets.
Some residents have been waiting for the verdict on the fate of their home and land since the first earthquake hit in September last year.
The memorial service for those who died in the Christchurch earthquake will take place in Hagley Park just after midday today.
Depicts spoof poster of new Zealand television series 'Hope and Wire' starring American actors as Bob Parker, Christchurch Mayor, Gerry Brownlee, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister, Roger Sutton, CERA CEO, Andrew Holden, Editor The Press. Context: a six part television series will be set in Christchurch in the aftermath of the earthquakes (Stuff 11 September 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Organisers of the Ellerslie Flower Show are hoping visitor numbers will be back to pre-earthquake highs, when it opens in Christchurch tomorrow.
The contents page for the Your Weekend section of The Press, featuring an editorial hoping for an end to aftershocks.
St Johns Church Hororata. Lovely old church - I really hope they are able to raise the money to restore it.
The front page graphic for the Your Weekend section of The Press. The main headline reads, "Hope: Roger Sutton takes charge of Christchurch".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates artwork from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates artwork from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Lyttelton Port is still only operating at 40 percent of its full capacity, nine days after the Christchurch earthquake, but the Port company says its core services are all working and within a week it will be almost at full strength.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".