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UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Photograph 132

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a pile of books in an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The book at the top is called, "Wellington After the 'Quake: The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:09:13 09:38:55

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake-stricken Canterbury today. Satyanand at the epicentre near Darfield where the new fault line can be clearly seen across a rural paddock".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:12:09 11:49:19

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The author Diana Noonan and illustrator Gavin Bishop of the children's book Quaky Cat read to a year 3 class at Avondale Primary School. The two collaborated on the book which is about the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:12:09 12:03:33

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The author Diana Noonan and illustrator Gavin Bishop of the children's book Quaky Cat read to a year 3 class at Avondale Primary School. The two collaborated on the book which is about the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:12:09 12:03:37

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The author Diana Noonan and illustrator Gavin Bishop of the children's book Quaky Cat read to a year 3 class at Avondale Primary School. The two collaborated on the book which is about the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:12:09 11:52:06

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The author Diana Noonan and illustrator Gavin Bishop of the children's book Quaky Cat read to a year 3 class at Avondale Primary School. The two collaborated on the book which is about the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:09:13 09:38:53

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake stricken Canterbury today. Satyanand at the epicentre near Darfield where the new fault line can be clearly seen across a rural paddock".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:12:09 11:52:58

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The author Diana Noonan and illustrator Gavin Bishop of the children's book Quaky Cat read to a year 3 class at Avondale Primary School. The two collaborated on the book which is about the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:09:13 09:39:56

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake stricken Canterbury today. Satyanand at the epicentre near Darfield where the new fault line can be clearly seen across a rural paddock".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:09:13 09:37:35

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake stricken Canterbury today. Satyanand at the epicentre near Darfield where the new fault line can be clearly seen across a rural paddock".

Fairfax Media Auckland Bureau Image: John Selkirk 2010:10:04 20:11:14

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Canterbury Earthquake Business Benefit Dinner hosted by the Prime Minister, was held tonight at Sky City in Auckland. Shown at the dinner is Mayor of Christchurch Bob Parker (right) with racing driver Greg Murphy".

Chances of magnitude aftershock hitting rapidly decreasing

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Two earthquake scientists say the chance of a magnitude six aftershock hitting the Canterbury region is decreasing day by day and is now unlikely. A Victoria University professor in geophysics and a GNS seismologist have put into perspective the weekend's devastating earthquake at a lecture in Wellington.

The national seismic hazard model for New Zealand, and the Mw7.1 4 Septemb…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

A team of earthquake geologists, seismologists and engineering seismologists from GNS Science, NIWA, University of Canterbury, and Victoria University of Wellington have collectively produced an update of the 2002 national probabilistic seismic hazard (PSH) model for New Zealand. The new model incorporates over 200 new onshore and offshore fault sources, and utilises newly developed New Zealand-based scaling relationships and methods for the parameterisation of the fault and subduction interface sources. The background seismicity model has also been updated to include new seismicity data, a new seismicity regionalisation, and improved methodology for calculation of the seismicity parameters. Background seismicity models allow for the occurrence of earthquakes away from the known fault sources, and are typically modelled as a grid of earthquake sources with rate parameters assigned from the historical seismicity catalogue. The Greendale Fault, which ruptured during the M7.1, 4 September 2010 Darfield earthquake, was unknown prior to the earthquake. However, the earthquake was to some extent accounted for in the PSH model. The maximum magnitude assumed in the background seismicity model for the area of the earthquake is 7.2 (larger than the Darfield event), but the location and geometry of the fault are not represented. Deaggregations of the PSH model for Christchurch at return periods of 500 years and above show that M7-7.5 fault and background source-derived earthquakes at distances less than 40 km are important contributors to the hazard. Therefore, earthquakes similar to the Darfield event feature prominently in the PSH model, even though the Greendale Fault was not an explicit model input.

Rural Recovery - A Quake Aftermath

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Cosmo Kentish-Barnes finds out how the rural recovery is going near the epicentre of the Canterbury Earthquake that shook the province in the early hours of September 4th.

Best of the Week - 8 October 2010

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 8 October. This week.....Canterbury marks a month since its earthquake, a co-producer of The Hobbit speaks out about union activity threatening the film's production in New Zealand, can the Commonwealth Games media stomach Delhi, Michael Caine talks about his new autobiography and we get the lowdown on whitebait.

SEISMIC UPHEAVAL. "I feel your pain, Bill" 10 September 2010

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

The cartoon is entitled 'seismic upheaval'. Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English stand near great seismic cracks in the ground and stare sadly at a huge wallet, 'Bill's boodle', belonging to Bill English. Vast quantities of banknotes spill out of the cash pocket in the wallet which also contains a 'travel card', a 'house card' and an 'expenses card'. The various cards in the wallet refer to expense account embarrassments relating to Bill English. Etched in the ground are the words 'Christchurch quake' and 'South Canterbury Finance'. The cartoon refers to two major events in the Canterbury area in recent times that have incurred huge government costs; these are the collapse of the South Canterbury Finance Company and the earthquake that struck early Saturday morning 4th September. The South Canterbury Finance Company has been taken into receivership by the government which has guaranteed that all 30,000 fortunate high-risk investors will be paid out $1.6b thanks to the taxpayer. Treasury is assuming that the cost of the earthquake will reach $4 billion, including $2 billion worth of estimated damage to private dwellings and their contents, $1 billion of damage to commercial property, and $1 billion worth of damage to public infrastructure. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Christchurch Mail Image: John Bisset 2010:09:10 14:22:22

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Members of the Red Cross civil defence response team and South Canterbury Police have been in Christchurch helping with the earthquake clean up. Having a look at a damaged bridge on River Road near Tai Tapu is Anna Sole".

Quake victims say pending rates rise will cripple them

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Shell shocked residents still picking up the pieces in one of the worst earthquake affected parts of Canterbury, say a looming rates rise to pay for repairs will cripple them.

Portable Toilet: Thunder Down Under

Images, Canterbury Museum

One portable toilet comprising of a black toilet seat and lid attached to a grey bucket; sticky label on the front features an image of the toilet, lightning and text including 'Thunder Down Under / Portable Toilet'; manufacturer's mark on lid reads 'Elemental'. Residents who owned commercially produced portable toilets like this ‘Thunder Down ...

Portable Chemical Toilet: Campmaster

Images, Canterbury Museum

One beige Campmaster portable chemical toilet made from a matte finished high-density polythene and comprising a 20 litre holding tank for waste product and a 10 litre water tank for flushing. Chemical toilets were distributed by the Christchurch City Council as one solution to the badly damaged sewerage system following the 22 February 2011 ea...

"The Prime Minister's going to make sure no cowboy builders are going to m…

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

An adviser tells the minister that the PM is going to make sure that no cowboy builders make a quick buck out of the massive rebuilding project. The minister curses because he is in the process of getting his box of tools ready. Refers to rebuilding damaged buildings in the wake of the Canterbury earthquake of 4th September 2010. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Small suburban businesses feel neglected by Chch council

Audio, Radio New Zealand

A group of small business owners in earthquake stricken Canterbury say they need a one hundred million dollar cash injection if they are to make it into the New Year.