ELM Offices Level 7 Library - Photograph 30

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University of Canterbury staff members are escorted by Civil Defence members in order to retrieve essential items from their offices. The photographer comments, "E-learning team collect their stuff".

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 42

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A close-up photograph of the damage to the support arm of the clock hour setting circle from the Townsend Telescope. The arm was bent out of shape during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 50

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A photograph of the declination slow motion gear from the Townsend Telescope.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 58

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A photograph of the side plate from the clock drive of the Townsend Telescope.

People in Disasters Conference - Canterbury Primary Care Response to Earth…

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A video of a presentation by Dr Phil Schroeder, Managing Director of Rolleston Central Health, during the second plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Canterbury Primary Care Response to Earthquakes in 2010/2011".

Observatory Tower Photograph 36

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A photograph of the platform for the Townsend Telescope amongst the rubble of the Observatory tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre. The tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake, severely damaging the telescope.

ELM Offices Level 7 Library - Photograph 26

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University of Canterbury staff members are escorted by Civil Defence members in order to retrieve essential items from their offices. The photographer comments, "ICT network admins, Craig Miller and Aaron Eivers".

ELM Offices Level 7 Library - Photograph 31

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University of Canterbury staff members are escorted by Civil Defence members in order to retrieve essential items from their offices. The photographer comments, "E-learning team vacate their floor. (Blurry, sorry.)

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 18

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University of Canterbury staff Alan Hoskin, Alison McIntyre and Jess Hollis working in temporary office space set up in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "University of Canterbury administration all fits into one building! Well, sort of. Alison and Alan continue discussing, Jess continues sagging".

Observatory Tower Photograph 05

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A photograph of a window of the Observatory tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 45

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A photograph of the inside of the dew and lens cap from the Townsend Telescope.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 39

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A photograph of the flange mount for the objective cell from the Townsend Telescope.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 35

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A photograph of the flange on the lower end of the main tube from the Townsend Telescope.

UC Restarts - Photograph 21

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One of the tents set up in the Fine Arts car park at the University of Canterbury, used for teaching while lecture theatres were closed for structural testing. The photographer comments, "Temporary lecture tents".

The UC QuakeBox Project: Creation of a community-focused research archive

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it has been widely utilised for linguistic and sociolinguistic research on New Zealand English. The ONZE data is varied. The recordings from the Mobile Unit (MU) are interviews and were collected by members of the NZ Broadcasting service shortly after the Second World War, with the aim of recording stories from New Zealanders outside the main city centres. These were supplemented by interview recordings carried out mainly in the 1990s and now contained in the Intermediate Archive (IA). The final ONZE collection, the Canterbury Corpus, is a set of interviews and word-list recordings carried out by students at the University of Canterbury. Across the ONZE corpora, there are different interviewers, different interview styles and a myriad of different topics discussed. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus – the QuakeBox – where these contexts are much more consistent and comparable across speakers. The QuakeBox is a corpus which consists largely of audio and video recordings of monologues about the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. As such, it represents Canterbury speakers’ very recent ‘danger of death’ experiences (see Labov 2013). In this paper, we outline the creation and structure of the corpus, including the practical issues involved in storing the data and gaining speakers’ informed consent for their audio and video data to be included.

UC Restarts - Photograph 06

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University of Canterbury ICT staff members prepare to be escorted to buildings by Civil Defence members in order to retrieve computers from offices. The photographer comments, "ICT staff head out to retrieve computers from buildings".

UC Restarts - Photograph 16

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University of Canterbury students walk along University Drive to get to lectures, after most pathways through campus were cordoned off while buildings were structurally tested. The photographer comments, "Lawns beside University Drive became main walkways".

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 54

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A close-up photograph of the wheel from the worm gear drive of the Townsend Telescope.

Townsend Telescope: Part Photograph 41

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A close-up photograph of the hour angle setting circle from the Townsend Telescope.

Observatory Tower Photograph 27

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A photograph of the rubble of the Observatory tower in the South Quad of the Christchurch Arts Centre. The tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A digger was used to clear the rubble away from the building.

Observatory Tower Photograph 14

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A close-up photograph of parts of the Townsend Telescope recovered from the rubble of the Observatory tower. The telescope was housed in the tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre. It was severely damaged when the tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Observatory Tower Photograph 12

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A photograph of parts of the Townsend Telescope recovered from the rubble of the Observatory tower. The telescope was housed in the tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre. It was severely damaged when the tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Hybrid Broadband Ground Motion Simulations of Porters Pass Earthquakes

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

We present ground motion simulations of the Porters Pass (PP) fault in the Canterbury region of New Zealand; a major active source near Christchurch city. The active segment of the PP fault has an inferred length of 82 km and a mostly strike-slip sense of movement. The PP fault slip makes up approximately 10% of the total 37 mm/yr margin-parallel plate motion and also comprises a significant proportion of the total strain budget in regional tectonics. Given that the closest segment of the fault is less than 45 km from Christchurch city, the PP fault is crucial for accurate earthquake hazard assessment for this major population centre. We have employed the hybrid simulation methodology of Graves and Pitarka (2010, 2015), which combines low (f<1 Hz) and high (f>1 Hz) frequencies into a broadband spectrum. We have used validations from three moderate magnitude events (𝑀𝑤4.6 Sept 04, 2010; 𝑀𝑤4.6 Nov 06, 2010; 𝑀𝑤4.9 Apr 29, 2011) to build confidence for the 𝑀𝑤 > 7 PP simulations. Thus far, our simulations include multiple rupture scenarios which test the impacts of hypocentre location and the finite-fault stochastic rupture representation of the source itself. In particular, we have identified the need to use location-specific 1D 𝑉𝑠/𝑉𝑝 models for the high frequency part of the simulations to better match observations.

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 06

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Temporary office space set up in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "University of Canterbury administration all fits into one building! Well, sort of. Looking east from our bay - library and IT people".

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 02

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Members of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team meet at a staff member's home on Wairakei Road to plan their return to work. The photographer comments, "E-Learning team: Susan Tull, Jess Hollis".

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 20

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Members of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their temporary office in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "E-learning group had one bay of desks to work from for 3 weeks".

UC Restarts - Photograph 07

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Members of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their temporary office space in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "E-Learning group meeting; Jess Hollis, Antoine Monti, Susan Tull, Alan Hoskin, Herbert Thomas".

UC Restarts - Photograph 20

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Tents set up in the Fine Arts car park at the University of Canterbury, used for teaching while lecture theatres were closed for structural testing. The photographer comments, "The 'tent city' on the Arts car park".

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 07

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University of Canterbury library staff in their temporary office in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "University of Canterbury administration all fits into one building! Well, sort of. Library staff - contacting publishers to ask for free online resources. A very high hit rate, shame they're not on commission".

NZi3 - Temporary HQ - Photograph 16

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Staff meet in temporary office space set up in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "University of Canterbury administration all fits into one building! Well, sort of. Two meeting spaces in the middle of the floor".