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BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0738
Images, UC QuakeStudies
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lift shaft, Radio NZ House, 51 Chester Street West, viewed from Durham Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0739
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Radio NZ House, 51 Chester Street West, viewed from Durham Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0860
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "772 - 774 Colombo Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 007
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A photograph of the damaged Christ Church Cathedral.
BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 006
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A photograph of the damaged Christ Church Cathedral.
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 344
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ACC building on Oxford Terrace, with half of the lift shaft removed".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0988
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Diggers move with precision and skill while demolishing the former Druids Building, 239 Manchester Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0803
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "641 Colombo Street - Benson Restaurant No 1".
BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 011
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lyttelton Police station is structurally compromised with south wall (not visible here) partly collapsed".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 365
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The Crowne Plaza Hotel viewed from Victoria Square across the tram bridge. Wire fencing has been placed across the bridge to keep people off.
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0334
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor, 165 Cashel Street, has moved sideways into the parking building at 161 Cashel Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0339
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor, 165 Cashel Street, has moved sideways into the parking building at 161 Cashel Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0285
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "116 Worcester Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 399
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square (climb the tower? Not any more)".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 389
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 414
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The badly-damaged Community of the Sacred Name Convent on Barbadoes Street.
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 405
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 362
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Ferrier Fountain against a backdrop of broken steps and spring growth".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 540
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "McKenzie & Willis building on Tuam Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 434
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Deconstruction of AMI Insurance Building, 29-35 Latimer Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 435
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Deconstruction of AMI Insurance Building, 29-35 Latimer Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 481
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Community Centre, 141 Hereford Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 433
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Hotel being demolished in Latimer Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 402
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "South aspect of ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 390
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 396
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 417
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Design and Arts College of NZ, Kaplan House, 116 Worcester Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 357
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "It's not easy to spot, but look at the floor level in this picture. By the bar, it's about half a metre higher than in the foreground. Pressure under the floor pushed the whole floor up".
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 410
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A pile of rubble from a demolished building on Worcester Street. In the background, the partially demolished Warners Hotel can be seen as well as the Novotel and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building in the distance. A digger and long-reach excavator can also be seen.
Geotechnical Aspects of the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
Research papers, University of Canterbury Library
The 22 February 2011, Mw6.2-6.3 Christchurch earthquake is the most costly earthquake to affect New Zealand, causing 181 fatalities and severely damaging thousands of residential and commercial buildings, and most of the city lifelines and infrastructure. This manuscript presents an overview of observed geotechnical aspects of this earthquake as well as some of the completed and on-going research investigations. A unique aspect, which is particularly emphasized, is the severity and spatial extent of liquefaction occurring in native soils. Overall, both the spatial extent and severity of liquefaction in the city was greater than in the preceding 4th September 2010 Darfield earthquake, including numerous areas that liquefied in both events. Liquefaction and lateral spreading, variable over both large and short spatial scales, affected commercial structures in the Central Business District (CBD) in a variety of ways including: total and differential settlements and tilting; punching settlements of structures with shallow foundations; differential movements of components of complex structures; and interaction of adjacent structures via common foundation soils. Liquefaction was most severe in residential areas located to the east of the CBD as a result of stronger ground shaking due to the proximity to the causative fault, a high water table approximately 1m from the surface, and soils with composition and states of high susceptibility and potential for liquefaction. Total and differential settlements, and lateral movements, due to liquefaction and lateral spreading is estimated to have severely compromised 15,000 residential structures, the majority of which otherwise sustained only minor to moderate damage directly due to inertial loading from ground shaking. Liquefaction also had a profound effect on lifelines and other infrastructure, particularly bridge structures, and underground services. Minor damage was also observed at flood stop banks to the north of the city, which were more severely impacted in the 4th September 2010 Darfield earthquake. Due to the large high-frequency ground motion in the Port hills numerous rock falls and landslides also occurred, resulting in several fatalities and rendering some residential areas uninhabitable.