BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 399

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Replica of Tui ad billboard on a house at 739 Gloucester Street. This one appeared during the Rugby World Cup".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 131

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Wooden bracing holding up the remaining masonry of this wall of the Cramner Centre (formerly Christchurch Girls' High School). Above the bracing, the masonry has fallen away.

English warns deficit will climb above 11 billion

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The Treasury is forecasting the Christchurch earthquake will slow economic activity and the Finance Minister says the forecast 11-billion dollar Budget deficit this year will also climb.

Almost 100 jobs to go at Grand Chancellor Hotel

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Almost 100 people are losing their jobs at Christchurch's Hotel Grand Chancellor this Friday, the latest in a series of significant job losses in the wake of the earthquake.

Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 18 July 2011

Audio, Radio New Zealand

NZ SAS troops involved in another gun battle in the Afghan capital Kabul. Another fatal police pursuit, this time, in South Auckland and Police investigate missing cheques for earthquake damage in Christchurch.

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A photograph submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "The gap between the garages used to be about twice this size (and not crooked…); Feb 22nd.".

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A photograph submitted by Grant Fife to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Canterbury Provincial Chambers 03/04/2011. This building was being stabilised and repaired after the September quake.".

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The entrance to a building has been spray painted after it has been cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 461

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Brighton Road at this point is now below sea level at very high tide!".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 1376

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Victoria Street towards the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Keep an eye on this as nearly all these buildings are due for demolition".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2249

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A photograph of the damaged Englefield Lodge. A sign painted on the house reads, "We will try to save this house".

BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 322

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Corner of Salisbury and Victoria Streets. A 'Greening the Rubble' project. This has subsequently been removed".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 1377

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Victoria Street towards the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Keep an eye on this as nearly all these buildings are due for demolition".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2250

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A photograph of the damaged Englefield Lodge. A sign painted on the house reads, "We will try to save this house".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0062

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This gives some indication of the extent of liquefaction in the garden at 7 Ching Gardens".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0211

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Charles Luney House, 250 Oxford Terrace - this is being soft stripped currently".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2214

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A photograph of a chalked message on a wall at 41 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant, reading, "We've been very good this year".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (30)

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The exposed wall of a building on Peterborough Street with an almost-finished mural. This was a joint project between Gap Filler and The Flying Cup Cafe.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (32)

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The exposed wall of a building on Peterborough Street with an almost-finished mural. This was a joint project between Gap Filler and the Flying Cup Cafe.

Helen Devereux Photograph 101

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Under the trees in the Botanic Gardens was a 'Road Cone Art Competition', to see what sculptures the public could make out of a road cone. This work was titled 'Flight of the Butterflies'.

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2417

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A driveway to 199 New Brighton Road. It's been a while since a car has been down this driveway".

22 February Earthquake - Photograph 45

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Damage to a house in Richmond. Large cracks run along the edges of this internal wall, and pictures on the wall are crooked. The photographer comments, "Internal damage to walls".

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Spray painted codes outside a block of apartments after it had been cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 290

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The side wall of a building has been spray painted after it was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 357

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A concrete-block fence has been spray painted after the building was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 355

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A concrete-block fence has been spray painted after the building was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 356

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A concrete-block fence has been spray painted after the building was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 353

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A concrete-block fence has been spray painted after the building was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 354

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A concrete-block fence has been spray painted after the building was cleared by a USAR team. This system was used following the February earthquake to mark buildings that have been checked.

Earthquake News “Geotechnical Damage due to the 2011 Christchurch, New Zea…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

On 22 February 2011，a magnitude Mw 6.3 earthquake occurred with an epicenter located near Lyttelton at about 10km from Christchurch in Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand (Figure 1). Since this earthquake occurred in the midst of the aftershock activity which had continued since the 4 September 2010 Darfield Earthquake occurrence, it was considered to be an aftershock of the initial earthquake. Because of the short distance to the city and the shallower depth of the epicenter, this earthquake caused more significant damage to pipelines, traffic facilities, residential houses/properties and multi-story buildings in the central business district than the September 2010 Darfield Earthquake in spite of its smaller earthquake magnitude. Unfortunately, this earthquake resulted in significant number of casualties due to the collapse of multi-story buildings and unreinforced masonry structures in the city center of Christchurch. As of 4 April, 172 casualties were reported and the final death toll is expected to be 181. While it is extremely regrettable that Christchurch suffered a terrible number of victims, civil and geotechnical engineers have this hard-to-find opportunity to learn the response of real ground from two gigantic earthquakes which occurred in less than six months from each other. From geotechnical engineering point of view, it is interesting to discuss the widespread liquefaction in natural sediments, repeated liquefaction within short period and further damage to earth structures which have been damaged in the previous earthquake. Following the earthquake, an intensive geotechnical reconnaissance was conducted to capture evidence and perishable data from this event. The team included the following members: Misko Cubrinovski (University of Canterbury, NZ, Team Leader), Susumu Yasuda (Tokyo Denki University, Japan, JGS Team Leader), Rolando Orense (University of Auckland, NZ), Kohji Tokimatsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Ryosuke Uzuoka (Tokushima University, Japan), Takashi Kiyota (University of Tokyo, Japan), Yasuyo Hosono (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) and Suguru Yamada (University of Tokyo, Japan).