BeckerFraserPhotos October 2010 photograph 047

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Water Tankers spraying the roads in Burwood to keep the sand and silt from entering the air and blowing around the neighbourhood.

this wasn't here when we left

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.

Rydal Street sand volcanos

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

It would have been a glorious Spring day in Christchurch had it not been for the magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 4:30 am. All the water and silt you can see covering the street in this photo erupted from the ground following the earthquake.