A story submitted by Madelaine Weiss to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 March 2011 entitled, "Day 32, 6am - Blues in the red zone".
A story submitted by Sue Stopford to the QuakeStories website.
A news item titled, "Recovery Needs Business to Open", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Sunday, 30 October 2011.
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 2 August 2011 entitled, "New Light".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 22 August 2011 entitled, "Would you like tears with your breakfast???".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 11 June 2011 entitled, "A quilt for my sister-in-law".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 11 August 2011 entitled, "[[Beautiful Quilt Pictures]]".
A story submitted by Mike Williams to the QuakeStories website.
Implementing seismic risk mitigation is a major challenge in many earthquake prone regions. The objective of this research is to investigate how property investment market practices can be used to enhance building owners’ decisions to improve seismic performance of earthquake prone buildings (EPBs). A case study method adopted, revealed the impacts of the property market stakeholders’ practices on seismic retrofit decisions. The findings from this research provide significant new insights on how property market-based incentives such as such as mandatory disclosure of seismic risks in all transactions in the property market, effective awareness seismic risk program and a unified earthquake safety assessment information system, can be used to enhance EPBs owners seismic retrofit decisions. These market-based incentives offer compelling reasons for the different property market stakeholders and the public at large to retain, care, invest, and act responsibly to rehabilitate EPBs. The findings suggest need for stakeholders involved in property investment and retrofit decisions to work together to foster seismic rehabilitation of EPBs.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 December 2011 entitled, "Mystery message".
A story submitted by JAC to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Helen to the QuakeStories website.
The Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's "Community Earthquake Update" bulletin, published on Friday 1 July 2011.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 1 August 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
Copthorne Hotel after the February 2011 earthquake; the opened windows showed the impact of the shaking.
At 4.35am on Saturday 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck near the township of Darfield in Canterbury leading to widespread damage in Christchurch and the wider central Canterbury region. Though it was reported no lives were lost, that was not entirely correct. Over 3,000 animals perished as a result of the earthquake and 99% of these deaths would have been avoidable if appropriate mitigation measures had been in place. Deaths were predominantly due to zoological vulnerability of birds in captive production farms. Other problems included lack of provision of animal welfare at evacuation centres, issues associated with multiple lost and found pet services, evacuation failure due to pet separation and stress impact on dairy herds and associated milk production. The Canterbury Earthquake has highlighted concerns over a lack of animal emergency welfare planning and capacity in New Zealand, an issue that is being progressed by the National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Group. As animal emergency management becomes better understood by emergency management and veterinary professionals, it is more likely that both sectors will have greater demands placed upon them by national guidelines and community expectations to ensure provisions are made to afford protection of animals in times of disaster. A subsequent and more devastating earthquake struck the region on Monday 22 February 2011; this article however is primarily focused on the events pertaining to the September 4 event.
News from the business sector focusing on the impact of the Christchurch earthquake, the bulletin includes a market report.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 28 February 2011 entitled, "Day 7, 2pm - inside the Christchurch cordon".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 March 2011 entitled, "Day 9, 5pm - inside the Christchurch cordon".
A story submitted by Rachel to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 21 December 2011 entitled, "Summer Solstice".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 March 2011 entitled, "Day 31 in the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 March 2011 entitled, "Day 32, 6pm - in the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 4 May 2011 entitled, "Earthquake Alphabet".
A story submitted by Stacey to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman to the QuakeStories website.
The Japanese earthquake may have an impact on plans by the government to borrow more to meet the earthquake rebuilding in Christchurch.