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Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.
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Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.
This one was really flowing out of the ground.
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These were scattered across the park.
Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.
The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.
An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.
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.)
Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.
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.
One of the many sand volcanos erupting from the ground after the Christchurch earthquake.
Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.
This has made a huge mess for the residents to clean up. I heard on the news that homes have been damaged by subsidence in areas of earthquake-caused liquefaction like this.