Adelaide mourns today for sister city Christchurch

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Today's memorial for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake is also being marked in Adelaide.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 2

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition. On the left is a crocheted image of an eye, created by a group of women from Adelaide, and on the right are woven fabric artworks created by Christchurch craft artists in response.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 5

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of people examining the artworks at the opening of the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 3

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of people examining the artworks at the opening of the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 4

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the outside of the building housing the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition. Posters in the window advertise the exhibition.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 6

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of some of the craft artists who were involved in creating the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition.

As Far As Eye Can See Photograph 1

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a group of people plaiting fabric strips to create artworks for the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition.

Performance of masonry buildings during the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquak…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have repeatedly been shown to perform poorly in large magnitude earthquakes, with both New Zealand and Australia having a history of past earthquakes that have resulted in fatalities due to collapsed URM buildings. A comparison is presented here of the URM building stock and the seismic vulnerability of Christchurch and Adelaide in order to demonstrate the relevance to Australian cities of observations in Christchurch resulting from the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake swarm. It is shown that the materials, architecture and hence earthquake strength of URM buildings in both countries is comparable and that Adelaide and other cities of Australia have seismic vulnerability sufficient to cause major damage to their URM buildings should a design level earthquake occur. Such an earthquake is expected to cause major building damage, and fatalities should be expected.