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Slides of Women's Voices: recording women's experiences of the Canterbury …

Videos, UC QuakeStudies

Slides from a presentation by Dr Rosemary Du Plessis at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Women's Voices: recording women's experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes".

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 460

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 456

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 459

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 457

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

The Canterbury Earthquakes: geological and seismological context for what …

Videos, UC QuakeStudies

A video recording of a lecture presented by Professor Jarg Pettinga and Dr Mark Quigley as part of the 2011 University of Canterbury Earthquake Lecture Series.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 458

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 461

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman in a florescent vest speaking to a member of the public outside a residential property. The woman is a volunteer for the Canterbury Earthquake Social Services Response team.

Helping children cope with the ongoing impact of the Canterbury earthquakes

Audio, Radio New Zealand

How do you help children cope with a life-threatening incident? And what if you’re stressed yourself? Katy Gosset looks at the far reaching emotional effects of the Canterbury earthquakes.

Canterbury cemeteries damaged in quake

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Some Christchurch residents fear there's a risk to the region's history if headstones damaged by September's 7.1 magnitude earthquake are not repaired.

Another large aftershock rattles Canterbury

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Canterbury has been hit by a large aftershock, a month to the day since a seven point one magnitude earthquake rocked the region.

Digital Photograph: Hagley Park

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 6 September 2010 showing water table alteration in a view towards Park Terrace from Hagley Park, near the Armagh Street bridge. Localised flooding was an almost immediate after effect of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. Some areas of Christchurch were submerged, sometimes for several days, f...

The day after the 7.1

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Christchurch city experienced a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on September 4 at 4:35 am. The epicentre was 40 km west of the city. It was the most damaging earthquake in New Zealand since the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931, but there was no loss of life. It was fortunate the earthquake occurred when the central city streets were deserted, as there w...

Chessie Henry - Canterbury earthquakes and a family memoir

Audio, Radio New Zealand

In the hours after the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake, Chessie Henry's father Chris Henry, a Kaikoura-based doctor, crawled into makeshift tunnels in the collapsed CTV building to rescue the living and look for the dead. Six years later, Chessie interviewed Chris in an attempt to understand the trauma that lead her father to burnout. In her book just published, We Can Make A Life: A memoir of family, earthquakes and courage, Chessie Henry considers the psychological cost of heroism and unravels stories and memories from her family history.

Northern Motorway after earthquake

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Damage from the Christchurch 7.1 earthquake on 4th Sept 2010

Photograph number UC 11-0234-01