20130827_2645_1D3-24 Colombo and Armagh corner
What was one of the busier intersection pre earthquakes!
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20130827_2621_1D3-47 Looking towards Cathedral Square
Where once were buildings! From the corner of Armagh Street and Oxford Terrace.
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20131231_8484_EOS M-22 Quake City exhibit
Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while.
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Football turf has now gone and the area fenced off again.
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The seismic survey truck T-Rex (from University of Texas) was in Bexley and Pacific Park a few days ago and may have left this calling card on the front lawn of my old "red zone" house. Obviously the geotechs will know what it means.
A red-zone house just a few down the road from where we used to live in Velsheda Street, with bricks (brick veneer?) off and lifted prior to transporting away.
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20131231_8503_EOS M-22 From Cashel Street
Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while.
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20130911_8095_EOS M-33 Another one ready to leave
Another salvaged house from the Bexley (Pacific Park) red zone is on the truck and may start it's journey to a new location overnight.
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A house, one of the few still remaining in the Dallington Red Zone (Avonside Drive, Dallington). The area is "red zoned" due to land damage from earthquakes (mainly the February 22nd 2011 6.4 magnitude quake).
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20130808_2298_1D3-40 New Brighton bridge
Eighty years and then the damage was done. Result of the earthquake on 22/02/11.
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Earthquake damage. As a result of the September 2010 earthquake, with further damage from the February 2011 event.
Due to earthquake damage.
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Former Salvation Army Citadel on Durham Street.
Corner of Durham and Kilmore.
20100918_3500_1D3-60 Porritt Park - Christchurch earthquake
The bridge at the north end of Porritt Park, Avondale.
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Today (04/09/14) marks the fourth anniversary since the first earthquake rocked the city and greater Christchurch area. That first quake was magnitude 7.1, and luckily there was only one fatality (possible a heart attack).
Since then we have had over 14,000 quakes, most very small in magnitude, but well over 500 of magnitude 4 or greater. 5...
20140522_8951_EOS M-22 Demolition
Of what many in Christchurch know as the Millers building, but for many recent years was the home to the Christchurch City Council, till just a week or two before the first earthquake of 2010. Now, in mid-2014 it is finally being demolished after nearly 45 months empty. A bus is leaving the new (temporary) bu...
