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Sand Volcano

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Photo of the damage caused by the 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchuch on the 4th of September 2010.

sand volcano crater

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An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.

sand volcano

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Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.

sand volcano

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This one was really flowing out of the ground.

sand volcano versus vegetables

A large pile of liquefaction silt in Parklands has been topped with a Christmas star. The photographer comments, "Not exactly the kind of sand castle you want to build on your Summer holidays. This is the biggest of several piles of liquefaction in just one street in Parklands/Queenspark".

sand volcano

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Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.

sand volcano in our front lawn

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sand volcano

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Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.

sand volcano

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(I righted the bird bath after the initial earthquake. None of the after-shocks were sufficient to knock it over again.)

sand volcano

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And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.

Rydal Street sand volcanos

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It would have been a glorious Spring day in Christchurch had it not been for the magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 4:30 am. All the water and silt you can see covering the street in this photo erupted from the ground following the earthquake.