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piles of silt / sand
Images, eqnz.chch.2010
shovelled out of peoples properties.
Rydal Street sand volcanos
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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.
Sand volcanos cover Rydal Street
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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.
Sand volcano of liquefaction silt outside McDonald Hartshorne
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Sand volcano of liquefaction silt outside McDonald Hartshorne on Manchester Street.
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2010 photograph 090
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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 Island of Sand
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A 'sand volcano' of liquefaction silt in Bexley. The photographer comments, "Liquefaction is just a mixture of sand and water squeezed up from the ground, but with a little imagination it has a beauty in its untouched state".
Footpath cracks next to Rydal Park.
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Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 102
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Artwork by the Sand Dancer, New Brighton Beach".
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 096
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sand volcanoes in the Heathcote Estuary".
Robbie and his new lawn feature
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One of the many sand volcanos erupting from the ground after the Christchurch earthquake.
this wasn't here when we left
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Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.
Photograph by Eroica Ritchie 041
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A "sand volcano" of liquefaction silt.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 335
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Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 334
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Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 338
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Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 339
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Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 332
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A "sand volcano" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcano was caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 333
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Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
The Marlborough Express Image: Ben Curran 2010:09:18 13:31:45
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Volunteers clearing out sand".
The Marlborough Express Image: Ben Curran 2010:09:18 13:32:57
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Volunteers clearing out sand".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 337
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Paradise ducks search for food among 'sand volcanoes' in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 336
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Students from the University of Canterbury marine research unit taking samples of the seabed to test the effects of the liquefaction on marine life.
Vulnerability to Seismic Hazards in Coastal and Riverside Communities, map…
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A map of Christchurch soils.
BeckerFraserPhotos October 2010 photograph 003
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A typical "sand volcano" 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.
Deb Robertson's Blog 11/07/2013: Do you ever feel like you are walking thr…
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 11 July 2013 entitled, "Do you ever feel like you are walking through deep sand?".
The Marlborough Express Image: Ben Curran 2010:09:18 13:09:02
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi volunteers clearing out sand".
Photograph by Eroica Ritchie 112
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A "sand volcano" of liquefaction silt in a garden.
The Samples
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A box containing drilling cores from soil sampling. The photographer comments, "These are the samples from drilling near my home. As you can see they are not so much samples as sand piles. The drill in a nearby street went down 20m and it was sand all the way. This is the box of samples from the ground level to 4.6m deep".
Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:09:09 03:25:57
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Sand volcanos on farmland near Halswell".
Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:09:09 03:26:41
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Sand volcanos on farmland near Halswell".