A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
A photograph contributed by Erin Harrington, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
Canterbury farmers say they're at breaking point. A recent Ministry of Health report presented to MPs shows suicide is up 20 percent in rural areas compared with a drop of 10 per cent in cities and towns. Droughts, floods, earthquakes, farm debt, M Bovis, looming water quality reforms and climate change legislation have Canterbury farmers feeling under the pump. Political reporter Jo Moir has been in the region talking to locals like Chris Allen.
A photograph of Di Madgin, a participant in the Understanding Place research project, in her former garden.
A story submitted by John Proffitt to the QuakeStories website.
A video of Kaspar Middendorf's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope.
“In the bay in which we landed, we found two or three miserable primitive Maori cabins, inhabited by half-a-dozen helpless old creatures and a few diseased children — forming a pa named Rapaki.”…
Matt Brown is a barber - but he does much more than cut hair. After the Christchurch earthquakes he set up a barber shop - in a shed in his backyard.
All good things must come to an end, and so this post marks the final blog in our Life Before Plastic series (here’s part one, two and three if you’ve missed any). Speaking of endings, today we’re going to be … Continue reading →
A property developer says he rejected an approach from a company who went on to build a substandard multistorey building in Christchurch's central mall. The building at 230 High Street is in limbo, having finally been ruled substandard with numerous design weaknesses that are an earthquake risk. Phil Pennington reports.
A pdf transcript of Rolan McConnell's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Sriparna Saha. Transcriber: Samuel Hope.
Results from cyclic undrained direct simple shear tests on reconstituted specimens of two sands from Christchurch are compared against the liquefaction resistance inferred from CPT-based empirical liquefaction triggering methods. Limitations in existing empirical triggering relationships to capture important effects related to processes which originated test soils are highlighted and discussed.