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BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 180

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An excavator demolishing the Hillary and Marshall Limited building on Manchester Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 174

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An excavator bunching up scrap metal as part of efforts to clear the site of the demolished Hillary and Marshall Limited building on Manchester Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 955

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A photograph of a building being demolished on Lichfield Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 176

An excavator bunching up scrap metal as part of efforts to clear the site of the demolished Hillary and Marshall Limited building on Manchester Street. A pile of scrapped wooden components can be seen at the back of the site.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 3041

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Redzoned houses between Wattle Drive and Anzac Drive".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 010

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Safety fences enclosing a vacant site on Williams Street in Kaiapoi where a building has been demolished.

Avonhead Park Cemetery Interment Site

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Avonhead Park Cemetery Interment Site. File reference: CCL-2012-02-27-AvonheadParkCemeteryIntermentSite-February-2012 DSC_020.JPG From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 171

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "735 Colombo Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 212

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The empty site of the demolished Methodist Church hall on Stanmore Road".

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0136

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "198 Gloucester Street, the site of the TVNZ building - demolished - AMI building (left), Newstalk ZB building (centre)".

Canterbury Tales Site Map

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of the site map for Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales was the main event of FESTA 2013; a carnivalesque procession through the central city, led by Free Theatre Christchurch. Sculptural installations and performances were part of the procession, which started at the Bridge of Remembrance and ended in Cathedral Square.

CityUps Site Map

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of the site map for CityUps. CityUps was a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014. It was held on vacant sites at the intersection of Lichfield Street, Manchester Street and High Street. Architecture students from Unitec, The University of Auckland and CPIT collaborated with local businesses to create large-scale, temporary structures to entertain the public.

Volcano, Lava Bar site

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Photos taken in Lyttelton showing the demolition of various buildings following the February 22 earthquake. File reference: CCL-2011-05-20-Lyttelton-Demolition-P1120472 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

Simplified-Physics High Frequency Ground-Motion Simulations Using Site-Spe…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

Hybrid broadband simulation methods typically compute high-frequency portion of ground-motions using a simplified-physics approach (commonly known as “stochastic method”) using the same 1D velocity profile, anelastic attenuation profile and site-attenuation (κ0) value for all sites. However, these parameters relating to Earth structure are known to vary spatially. In this study we modify this conventional approach for high-frequency ground-shaking by using site-specific input parameters (referred to as “site-specific”) and analyze improvements over using same parameters for all sites (referred to as “generic”). First, we theoretically understand how different 1D velocity profiles, anelastic attenuation profiles and site-attenuation (κ0) values affects the Fourier Acceleration Spectrum (FAS). Then, we apply site-specific method to simulate 10 events from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence to assess performance against the generic approach in predicting recorded ground-motions. Our initial results suggest that the site-specific method yields a lower simulation standard deviation than generic case.