
Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.
Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.
Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.
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Photo of the damage caused by the 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchuch on the 4th of September 2010.
And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.
(I righted the bird bath after the initial earthquake. None of the after-shocks were sufficient to knock it over again.)
This one was really flowing out of the ground.
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An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.
Yes, it was a joke. The tours, that is, not the yard filled with earthquake-caused sand volcanos. They were very real. You can see one covering the driveway in this photo. The signs read as follows. "Tours run 1/2 hourly. $5.25 admission. Eftpos unavailable." "If you think this is bad... you should see the back!"
Lots of people were out and about in the streets checking on everyone after the earthquake. When it was clear that everyone was OK, the sand volcanos became the feature of interest.
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These were scattered across the park.
A sand volcano in the Halswell Primary School grounds. Sand volcanoes were caused by liquefaction where the soil loses its strength during the earthquake and the silt rises upwards, ejecting out of a hole like magma in a volcano.
The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.
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.