A story submitted by Aaron Schulz to the QuakeStories website.
The magnitude 7.1 Christchurch earthquake broke off an enormous chunk of Castle Rock in the Port Hills which has tumbled down towards the Lyttelton tunnel. View from Morgan's Valley (-43.578037° 172.714828°).
The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.
Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.
A story submitted by Rosie Belton to the QuakeStories website.
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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.)
One of the many sand volcanos erupting from the ground after the Christchurch earthquake.
And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.
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This one was really flowing out of the ground.
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These were scattered across the park.
Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.
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.
Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.
An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.