Transcript of Jo Zervos's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Craig Banbury's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Jan Dobson's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Kirstin Golding's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Sue French's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Summary of oral history interview with Kirsten Rennie about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Anna Mowat about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
This thesis investigates life-safety risk in earthquakes. The first component of the thesis utilises a dataset of earthquake injuries and deaths from recent earthquakes in New Zealand to identify cause, context, and risk factors of injury and death in the 2011 MW6.3 Christchurch earthquake and 2016 MW7.8 Kaikōura earthquake. Results show that nearly all deaths occurred from being hit by structural elements from buildings, while most injuries were caused by falls, strains and being hit by contents or non-structural elements. Statistical analysis of injured cases compared to an uninjured control group found that age, gender, building damage, shaking intensity, and behaviour during shaking were the most significant risk factors for injury during these earthquakes. The second part of the thesis uses the empirical findings from the first section to develop two tools for managing life-safety risk in earthquakes. The first tool is a casualty estimation model for health system and emergency response planning. An existing casualty model used in New Zealand was validated against observed data from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and found to underestimate moderate and severe injuries by an order of magnitude. The model was then updated to include human behaviour such as protective actions, falls and strain type injuries that are dependent on shaking intensity, as well as injuries and deaths outside buildings. These improvements resulted in a closer fit to observed casualties for the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The second tool that was developed is a framework to set seismic loading standards for design based on fatality risk targets. The proposed framework extends the risk-targeted hazard method, by moving beyond collapse risk targets, to fatality risk targets for individuals in buildings and societal risk in cities. The framework also includes treatment of epistemic uncertainty in seismic hazard to allow this uncertainty to be used in risk-based decision making. The framework is demonstrated by showing how the current New Zealand loading standards could be revised to achieve uniform life-safety risk across the country and how the introduction of a new loading factor can reduce risk aggregation in cities. Not on Alma, moved and emailed. 1/02/2023 ce
A pdf transcript of Martin's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope. Transcriber: Lauren Millar.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
Summary of oral history interview with Amber Henderson about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Transcript of Annie Currie's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Diana Lappage's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Nicola Tater's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Stephen Estall's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
Transcript of Jeff Davies's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
An infographic comparing numbers of injuries seen at Christchurch hospitals following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A table giving statistics on injuries in the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 earthquakes.
Transcript of Liz Grant's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A pdf transcript of Darren Tatom's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope. Transcriber: Samuel Hope.
A story submitted by Mike Ryan to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
The number of people injured in the earthquake in Christchurch more than two weeks ago is still unknown.
Transcript of Robin Robins's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Denny O'Brien-Warriner's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Jan's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A pdf transcript of Aaron Tremaine's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Laura Moir. Transcriber: Maggie Blackwood.
Transcript of Vanessa Evans's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A pdf transcript of Kate Lambert's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope. Transcriber: Lauren Millar.