Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:29 14:13:00

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The ongoing demolition of business premises around central Christchurch after the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th. Buildings on the east side of Colombo Street between Salisbury and Peterborough Streets".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:09:15 13:23:21

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Abandoned armchairs outside flats in South Brighton after tenants having suddenly been told by the council they have to move out after initially been given green stickers after the Christchurch earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:29 14:13:28

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The ongoing demolition of business premises around central Christchurch after the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th. Buildings on the east side of Colombo Street between Salisbury and Peterborough Streets".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:29 14:13:38

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The ongoing demolition of business premises around central Christchurch after the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th. Buildings on the east side of Colombo Street between Salisbury and Peterborough Streets".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:29 14:14:45

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The ongoing demolition of business premises around central Christchurch after the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th. Buildings on the east side of Colombo Street between Salisbury and Peterborough Streets".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:29 14:14:11

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The ongoing demolition of business premises around central Christchurch after the 7.1 earthquake on September 4th. Buildings on the east side of Colombo Street between Salisbury and Peterborough Streets".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:09:15 13:23:04

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Abandoned armchairs outside flats in South Brighton after tenants having suddenly been told by the council they have to move out after initially been given green stickers after the Christchurch earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor 2010:10:27 02:21:29

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Canterbury A&P show president John Grigg's Hororata farm was badly damaged in the earthquake. The end of his grandmother's 1970 Holden Premier".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:09:07 14:41:10

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Volunteers, Siena Childs, 13, left, Sam Butcher, 13, Jess Butcher, 18, and Alex Summerlee, 18, clean up in Avonside Drive following Canterbury's earthquake".

Cathedral Square rebuild stalls

Audio, Radio New Zealand

More than four years after the February 2011 earthquake devastated Christchurch's city centre, the rebuild in and around the iconic Cathedral Square has stalled.

Charles Drennan

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Parish priest of St Anne's Woolston, Christchurch, and Administrator of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament which was partially destroyed during the February earthquake.

Musician Fiona Pears

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Lyttelton-based musician Fiona Pears is putting her life back together after the Christchurch earthquake. She's written a song, called Calm After The Storm.

Christchurch schools two years on from the Sept 4 quake

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Schools are an important part of any community, and two years on from the start of the earthquakes in Canterbury many are still coping with damage to classrooms, and with dramatically reduced rolls.

Christchurch Press Image: Martin van Beynen 2010:09:04 (09)

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Stephen Mateer (left) and James Gurnsey of the Lyttelton Coffee Company, who are thankful that they recently earthquake-strengthened their busy Lyttelton Cafe - see the steel beams behind them".

Cup and Show week gives Christchurch reason to smile

Audio, Radio New Zealand

It's Canterbury's annual Cup and Show week. Organisers say the event has extra prominence this year, as the region's been robbed of many major events because of the damage to venues in the September and February earthquakes.

Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 6 September 2010

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Army takes control of central Christchurch, Cabinet earmarks money for Canterbury quake, More on the damage from the Christchurch earthquake, Heavy rain causes flooding in lower North Island and Fox Glacier crash report could take two years.

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:11:16 12:55:09

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Ben Friel (12), left, and Sam O'Hara (13) are doing the short bays bike ride to raise funds for Child Cancer and the Earthquake Appeal".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:11:16 12:56:12

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Ben Friel (12), left, and Sam O'Hara (13) are doing the short bays bike ride to raise funds for Child Cancer and the Earthquake Appeal".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:09 13:55:32

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line runs across the paddocks and road and into the distance".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:09 13:55:12

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line runs across the paddocks and road and into the distance".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:09 13:11:06

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line went in between the house and garage of this property".

Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:09:09 02:47:49

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Students at Southbridge School back at school after it was closed after the earthquake. From left Neesha Ineson (10) Jessica Carter (10) and Bethan Johanson (11)".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:09 13:55:42

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line runs across the paddocks and road and into the distance".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:26 18:06:33

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Brooklands area is having a street party to lift their spirits as their area is a mess after the September 4 M7.1 earthquake".

Observed Ground Motions in the 4 September 2010 Darfield and 22 February 2…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

This paper provides an overview of the salient aspects of the dense array of ground motions observed in the 4 September 2010 Darfield and 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquakes. Particular attention is given to inferred physical reasons for the observed ground motions, which include: (i) source features such as forward directivity effects; (ii) The effects of the Canterbury Plains sedimentary basin on basin-generated surface waves, and waveguide effects through the region; and (iii) the importance of local site response as evidenced by observations of large long period amplification and liquefaction. The significance of vertical ground motion intensity is also examined.

The Strange Lines of Bubbles in Earthquake Liquefaction

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Liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "This is the liquid part of liquefaction left when the heavier sand content has dropped down. After the double quake in Christchurch local to me I found these strange lines of bubbles on the surface".

Developer says they 'rejected' builder involved with earthquake prone buil…

Audio, Radio New Zealand

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.

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Looking across the faultline where the Saturday 4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake originated. Note how much the previously straight fence is now out of alignment.

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Looking across the faultline where the Saturday 4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake originated. Note how much the previously straight fence is now out of alignment.

Personal experience writing by Jae Youn

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A piece of personal experience writing about the Canterbury earthquakes, written by Jae Youn