The remains of Repertory Theatre on Kilmore Street.
A sign on a wire fencing around a construction site reading, "Quake repairs, keep out, for your own safety".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "171-179 High Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "311 St Asaph Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An excavator loading rubble from the demolished Strategy building into a truck".
A digger clearing rubble from the demolished Strategy House on Montreal Street. Part of the road has been cordoned off with wire fences and the Victoria Clock Tower can be seen in the distance.
A pile of rubble from the Strategy building on Montreal Street.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new temporary city i-SITE visitor centre in the Botanic Gardens, Rolleston Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Where the house at 144 Woodham Road collapsed".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "452/454 Ferry Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "455 Ferry Road".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Redzoned houses between Wattle Drive and Anzac Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "455 Ferry Road".
Workers reinforcing a brick building in Lyttelton.
A pile of rubble from the Strategy building on Montreal Street.
A digger clearing rubble on the site of a demolished building on London Street, Lyttelton.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An excavator loading rubble from the demolished Strategy building into a truck".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An empty site at 86-98 Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "143 Worcester Street".
A collapsed building on Kilmore Street. Most of the site has already been cleared.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Remnants of St Lukes Anglican Church, Kilmore Street".
A man removing bricks from a building on Oxford Street, Lyttelton.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Remnants of St Lukes Anglican Church, Kilmore Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Central city, from Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "151 Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "455 Ferry Road".
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.