Mike Cameron WEMO Photograph 07

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A photograph of the earthquake-damaged brick wall of a house on Bealey Avenue near Springfield Road. The ceiling of the building has been braced with scaffolding.

WEMO ERT Set 4 - March 2011 - Photograph 13

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A photograph of emergency management personnel running a USAR station in Latimer Square. The station is made up of wooden struts with a tarpaulin roof and walls.

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This shop at the Colombo Street / Tuam Street corner lost its side wall in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.

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This shop at the Colombo Street / Tuam Street corner lost its side wall in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.

The day of the big shake

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Christchurch residents will gather today to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Christchurch Earthquake. Large crowds are expected from half past twelve this afternoon on the lawn just across the river from the memorial wall where a service begin at 12.30. Among those speaking is the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern. A message from former mayor, Sir Bob Parker, will be also read out. The names of the 185 who died will be read before a minute's silence at twelve fifty one, the exact moment the quake struck. Flowers will then be laid at the memorial wall. This is where our coverage began .A warning this is confronting audio of events that day.

All Right? Tape Art Photograph 103

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A photograph of the tape art mural on the south wall of Community and Public Health. Erica Duthie from Tape Art NZ can be seen beginning a tape artwork for the mural. In the foreground a Greening the Rubble site is being planted. The photograph was taken at Street Talk, a Tape Art residency held from 6 - 9 March 2014. Street Talk was a collaborative project between All Right?, Healthy Christchurch and Tape Art NZ that had Christchurch communities create large tape art murals on the south wall of Community and Public Health.

Cracks in the Veneer

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Large cracks run through the brick cladding of this house in Wainoni. The photographer comments, "During the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch the land which ran alongside the Avon river on Avonside Drive slumped towards the waterway. Houses which were wooden framed and had an external brick veneer started to sink into the liquefied soil. This caused the brick walls to crack, but the houses' occupants though shook up were saved by the wooden framework from the houses collapsing on them".

Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Reinforced Concrete Building…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

Recent major earthquakes such as Northridge 1994 and Izmit Kocaeli 1999 highlighted the poor performance of existing buildings constructed prior to the early 1970’s. Low lateral seismic design coefficients and the adopted “working stress design” methodology (essentially an elastic design) lacked any inelastic design considerations, thus leading to inadequate detailing. Insufficient development lengths, lapping within potential plastic hinge regions, lack, or total absence of joint transverse reinforcement, and the use of plain round reinforcement and hooked end anchorages were common throughout the structure. The behaviour is generally dominated by brittle local failure mechanisms (e.g. joint or element shear failures) as well as possible soft-storey mechanisms at a global level. Amongst several possible retrofit interventions, a typical solution is to provide the structure with additional structural walls i.e. external buttressing or column in-fills. Extensive developments on precast, post-tensioned, dissipative systems have shown promise for the use of rocking wall systems to retrofit existing poorly detailed frame structures. In this contribution, the feasibility of such a retrofit intervention is investigated. A displacement-based retrofit procedure is developed and proposed, based on targeting pre-defined performance criteria, such as joint shear and/or column curvature deformation limits. A design example, using the proposed retrofit strategy on a prototype frame is presented. A brief overview on experimental work ongoing at the University of Canterbury investigating the dynamic response of advanced rocking walls for retrofit purposes will be provided.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 255

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A photograph of the badly-damaged Gordon Harris building on Worcester Street. There are large cracks in the walls and the glass has fallen out of the windows.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 252

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A photograph of the badly-damaged Gordon Harris building on Worcester Street. There are large cracks in the walls and the glass has fallen out of the windows.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 256

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A photograph of the badly-damaged Gordon Harris building on Worcester Street. There are large cracks in the walls and the glass has fallen out of the windows.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 254

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A photograph of the badly-damaged Gordon Harris building on Worcester Street. There are large cracks in the walls and the glass has fallen out of the windows.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 253

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A photograph of the badly-damaged Gordon Harris building on Worcester Street. There are large cracks in the walls and the glass has fallen out of the windows.

New Zealand Defence Force photograph 717

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The corner of Manchester and Tuam Streets in town, the street cordoned off in the distance. Peaches and Cream can be seen, the walls braced with wooden planks.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 10

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house in Christchurch. The roof of the house has collapsed, bringing the top of the front wall down with it.

Band-Aid Bandits Photograph 2

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A photograph of a paste-up on an earthquake-damaged brick wall. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 3 (16)

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Bunting blowing in the wind at the site of Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. Films were projected onto the wall which the bunting is attached to.

The Times They Are A-Changing

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A wall clock with its glass broken. The photographer comments, "A very appropriate title as the numbers are not sequential and the clock has a very odd shape".

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2015:03:22 14:43:23)

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A photograph of street art on a wall facing onto a car park off Hawke Street. The artwork depicts a woman, and is signed, "Merry Xmas, from Stefan".

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 171

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Armagh Street. The outer walls of the building have collapsed, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front.

Diabetes Centre Photograph 107

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A photograph of Knox Church on Bealey Avenue. Much of the brick wall is missing, exposing the wooden framing of the gables and the inside of the church.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:56:20)

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A photograph of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 11

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house in Christchurch. The roof of the house has collapsed, bringing the top of the front wall down with it.

Mike Cameron WEMO Photograph 02

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A photograph of Knox Church on the corner of Victoria Street and Bealey Avenue. The walls of the gables have crumbled, spilling bricks onto the footpath in front.

Backpacker's family's first visit to Chch for quake memorial

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Rachel Conley's family has flown to Christchurch for the first time for the unveiling of the memorial wall. They are staying with a NZ family, whose son died along with Rachel in the earthquake.

Shermine Kwok Photograph 3

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A photograph of Terry Chung's project 'Smile for Christchurch'. The project consists of hundreds of photographs of people smiling. The photographs are stuck to a painted blue wall in Re:START Mall.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 343

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A photograph of the lobby of a building on Gloucester Street. Large cracks can be seen along the inside wall and USAR codes have been spray painted on the glass doors.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 110

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A photograph of the badly damaged Canterbury Provincial Chambers on Durham Street. The roof and upper walls of the Stone Chamber have collapsed, the masonry falling onto the footpath below.

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A damaged house on Manchester Street. A section of wall where masonry has collapsed has been weather proofed with a black tarpaulin. The building's chimney has fallen on to its roof.

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The remains of Simply Catering Cafe on the corner of Salisbury and Madras Streets, which have been cordoned off by a safety fence. The word "Red" has been painted on one of the building's walls.