A Frews excavator cleaning up the site of a demolished building on Cashel Street. Behind it the Les Mills building can be seen.
A construction site on Wakefield Avenue in Sumner that has been red-stickered due to rock fall danger from the cliff behind it.
A photograph of excavators on a demolition site. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "51-53 Cathedral Square".
A photograph of people at the site of the CTV building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Second anniversary 22 February earthquake".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A vacant sites at 113-121 Lichfield Street with 18-28 Bedford Row visible behind".
A photograph of people at the site of the CTV building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Second anniversary 22 February earthquake".
A construction site on Wakefield Avenue in Sumner that has been red-stickered due to rock fall danger from the cliff behind it.
A photograph of people at the site of the CTV building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Second anniversary 22 February earthquake".
A photograph of people at the site of the CTV building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Second anniversary 22 February earthquake".
A photograph of people at the site of the CTV building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Second anniversary 22 February earthquake".
An aerial photograph of Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion on the vacant site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Kilmore Street.
A photograph of a stage and music set on the site of Illusions, an installation which is part of LUXCITY.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The empty site where 31 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant used to be".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Remaining crushed concrete rubble on the site of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Cashel Street".
Despite the relatively low seismicity, a large earthquake in the Waikato region is expected to have a high impact, when the fourth-largest regional population and economy and the high density critical infrastructure systems in this region are considered. Furthermore, Waikato has a deep soft sedimentary basin, which increases the regional seismic hazard due to trapping and amplification of seismic waves and generation of localized surface waves within the basin. This phenomenon is known as the “Basin Effect”, and has been attributed to the increased damage in several historic earthquakes, including the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. In order to quantitatively model the basin response and improve the understanding of regional seismic hazard, geophysical methods will be used to develop shear wave velocity profiles across the Waikato basin. Active surface wave methods involve the deployment of linear arrays of geophones to record the surface waves generated by a sledge hammer. Passive surface wave methods involve the deployment of two-dimensional seismometer arrays to record ambient vibrations. At each site, the planned testing includes one active test and two to four passive arrays. The obtained data are processed to develop dispersion curves, which describe surface wave propagation velocity as a function of frequency (or wavelength). Dispersion curves are then inverted using the Geopsy software package to develop a suite of shear wave velocity profiles. Currently, more than ten sites in Waikato are under consideration for this project. This poster presents the preliminary results from the two sites that have been tested. The shear wave velocity profiles from all sites will be used to produce a 3D velocity model for the Waikato basin, a part of QuakeCoRE flagship programme 1.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Earthquake resilience graffiti on the site of a demolished building in Sydenham. Wildflowers have grown out front".
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Burwood with the demolished site of the QE II stadium in the background.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A pile of rubble on the back corner of the cleared site at 44 London Street in Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral Junction, Worcester Street".
A man walks along Hereford Street, past the former site of the ANZ bank in Cathedral Square. In the background is the partially-demolished BNZ building.
A photograph of a truck removing rubble from a demolition site. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall".
A photograph of a truck removing rubble from a demolition site. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall".
A best practice traffic management guideline, produced in February 2014, which helps traffic management team members manage cyclists through road work sites safely.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The demolition site of the Canterbury Hotel, viewed from Oxford Street looking towards Norwich Quay in Lyttelton".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The demolition site of the Canterbury Hotel, viewed from Oxford Street looking towards Norwich Quay in Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The now empty site of Cranmer Centre with salvaged material (former Christchurch Girls High School)".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Taken from Hereford Street looking across the site of the Occidental Hotel to the IRD building on Cashel Street".
A photo and flowers attached to the fence of the CTV building site on the anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A Christmas tree erected on the building site for the temporary "cardboard cathedral". The base of the support framework for the cathedral is visible behind the tree.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A cheery demolition site on the corner of Oxford Street and Sumner Road in Lyttelton".