UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 166

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A photograph of an earthquake-damaged bridge over the Kaiapoi River.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 164

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A photograph of an earthquake-damaged bridge over the Kaiapoi River.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 165

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A photograph of an earthquake-damaged bridge over the Kaiapoi River.

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A photograph of the Civil Suite at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 100

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A photograph of a workstation in the Civil Suite at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 123

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A photograph of a pile of broken glass in the entrance way to an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury, after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 138

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A photograph of a crack in a wall of Room 212 in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury when staff were let in after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

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A photograph of cracks across a road in Canterbury caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

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A photograph of a trolley stacked with computers and keyboards in the Civil Suite at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 125

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A photograph of Room 212 in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 124

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A photograph of Room 212 in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 126

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A photograph of Room 212 in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The photograph was taken on the day when the staff were allowed to return to the building.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 161

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the footpath before the Williams Street bridge in Kaiapoi, over the Kaiapoi River.

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A photograph of an earthquake-damaged chimney on a house in Christchurch. The bricks have crumbled to reveal the flue.

Performance of masonry buildings during the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquak…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have repeatedly been shown to perform poorly in large magnitude earthquakes, with both New Zealand and Australia having a history of past earthquakes that have resulted in fatalities due to collapsed URM buildings. A comparison is presented here of the URM building stock and the seismic vulnerability of Christchurch and Adelaide in order to demonstrate the relevance to Australian cities of observations in Christchurch resulting from the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake swarm. It is shown that the materials, architecture and hence earthquake strength of URM buildings in both countries is comparable and that Adelaide and other cities of Australia have seismic vulnerability sufficient to cause major damage to their URM buildings should a design level earthquake occur. Such an earthquake is expected to cause major building damage, and fatalities should be expected.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 015

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a roof of a house on the corner of Papanui Road and Merivale Lane.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a roof of a house on the corner of Papanui Road and Merivale Lane.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a roof of a house on the corner of Papanui Road and Merivale Lane.

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A photograph of a earthquake-damaged building on Moorhouse Avenue. The front gable of the building has crumbled, exposing the inside.

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A photograph of a toppled filing cabinet in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury, after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 140

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A photograph of workers in a crane-raise platform removing bricks from the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road.

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A photograph of a section of road on the Greendale Fault line with large cracks caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

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A photograph of a section of road on the Greendale Fault line with large cracks caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 139

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A photograph of workers in a crane-raise platform removing bricks from the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road.

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A photograph of the Greendale Fault line, now visible across a paddock due to cracks caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 034

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A photograph of the Greendale Fault line, now visible across a paddock due to cracks caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 211

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A photograph of a projector set up in the Avonhead Baptist Church. The room is to be used as a temporary lecture theatre for the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, as lecture theatres on campus are inaccessible following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Seismically Induced Shear of a Concrete Reservoir in the February 2011 Chr…

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A pdf copy of a PowerPoint presentation prepared for the Australia New Zealand Geotechnical Engineering Conference.

UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 132

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A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The book at the top is called, "Wellington After the 'Quake: The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities".

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A photograph of a section of road lying on the Greendale Fault line which has large cracks caused by the 4 September 2010 earthquake.