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A photograph of a foundation stone from the Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church at 163 Papanui Road. The stone reads, "AD 1894".

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A photograph of a plaque commemorating the establishment of the Methodist church in Lyttelton. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Winchester St, Lyttelton".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 218

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The foundation stone removed from the Church Hall at 165 Papanui Road. The stone reads, "A.D.1902".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Foundation stones the way Christchurch does them in 2012".

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A photograph of a foundation stone at Christ's College. The stone reads, "This stone was laid by His Excellency the Most Reverend Sir Paul Reeves G.C.M.G. G.C.V.O. Governor General of New Zealand October 13th 1987".

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 287

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hereford Street - foundation stone from the building known as Kenton Chambers".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Foundation stone in the chapel of Christ's College, Rolleston Avenue".

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 258

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street - salvaged from demolition of the Christchurch Star building".

Fairfax Video, April 2012 (3)

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A video of Stone Works removing a time capsule from the foundations of the old Press Building in Cathedral Square. The time capsule was found in the foundation stone of the building. It contained a bundle of newspapers from April 1907, handwritten notes, and coins.

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :'Feb 22 Community Spirit'. 21 February 2012

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Cartoon shows a stone foundation that commemorates 'community spirit' after the Christchurch earthquake of February 22 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2013 photograph 157

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A retaining wall supports a bank on London Street in Lyttelton. The original stone wall that supported the foundation of the house has been removed.

Performance of the Christchurch, New Zealand cathedral during the M7.1 201…

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The Catholic Cathedral is classified as a category 1 listed heritage building constructed largely of unreinforced stone masonry, and was significantly damaged in the recent Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. In the 2010 event the building presented slight to moderta damage, meanwhile in the 2011 one experienced ground shaking in excess of its capacity leading to block failures and partial collapse of parts of the building, which left the building standing but still posing a significant hazard. In this paper we discuss the approach to develop the earthquake analysis of the building by 3D numerical simulations, and the results are compared/calibrated with the observed damage of the 2010 earthquake. Very accurate records were obtained during both earthquakes due to a record station located least than 80 m of distance from the building and used in the simulations. Moreover it is included in the model the soil structure interaction because it was observed that the ground and foundation played an important role on the seismic behavior of the structure. A very good agreement was found between the real observed damage and the nonlinear dynamic simulations described trough inelastic deformation (cracking) and building´s performance.