River could burst banks in shaken Christchurch

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The state of emergency in Christchurch has just been extended until midday on Wednesday. In latest developments Canterbury Civil Defence is now warning people to prepare for potential flooding, only two days after the major earthquake that caused widespread damage to much of the region.

Cantabrians struggling to cope with constant shaking

Audio, Radio New Zealand

It's more tha 10 weeks since the seven point one magnitude Canterbury earthquake but the region continues to be shaken by aftershocks.

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

Damage to a house in Pines Beach, after the September 4th earthquake. The chimney has been shaken out from the wall.

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Part of the parapet of this building was shaken loose by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchurch on 4 September 2010.

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Part of the parapet of this building was shaken loose by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchurch on 4 September 2010.

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Stock buyer Bill Laurence, seen at the Stratford stock sale, was shaken up in his Christchurch home when this month's earthquake struck".

Taranaki Daily News Image: Sue O'Dowd 2010:09:08 12:50:38

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Stock buyer Bill Laurence, seen at the Stratford stock sale, was shaken up in his Christchurch home when this month's earthquake struck".

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

Cracking in the plaster work of the side wall of a building in the central city. The bricks that make up the wall have shaken apart and are threatening to topple.

Digital Photograph: Red brick fence

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 6 September 2010 showing earthquake damage to a red brick fence on Bealey Avenue. Unreinforced brick masonry was particularly susceptible to damage during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. Walls and fences constructed from on many properties were shaken loose causing piles of rubble to litter...

From the city that rocks, observations from post-earthquake Christchurch N…

Research Papers, Lincoln University

At 4.35 a.m. on the 4th of September 2010 Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit urban New Zealand for nearly 80 years. It was a large earthquake. On average the world only has 17 earthquakes a year larger than magnitude seven. Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 was magnitude 7.1 and Chile’s earthquake in February was magnitude 8.8. Although it was a big quake, Christchurch was lucky. In Haiti’s earthquake over 230,000 people were killed and in Chile 40,000 homes were destroyed. Happily this was not the situation in Christchurch, however the earthquake has caused considerable damage. The challenge for the Landscape Architecture community is to contribute to the city’s reconstruction in ways that will not only fix the problems of housing, and the city’s urban, suburban and neighbourhood fabric but that will do so in ways that will help solve the landscape problems that dogged the city before the earthquake struck.