A photograph of a mound of liquefaction in the middle of Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The street is red zoned.
Building rubble and liquefaction on the footpath outside the former Public Library on the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace.
Building rubble and liquefaction on the footpath outside the former Public Library on the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace.
Building rubble and liquefaction on the footpath outside the former Public Library on the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace.
Bare patches of ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. The bare patches mark where liquefaction covered the grass after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Students from the University of Canterbury marine research unit taking samples of the seabed to test the effects of the liquefaction on marine life.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New liquefaction at 22 Seabreeze Close, from the 23 December 2011 earthquakes".
A photograph of the Crowne Plaza looking north from Hamish Hay Bridge. Liquefaction covers the courtyard in the foreground.
A photograph of piles of liquefaction silt lining Atlantis Street in New Brighton. This part of the street is red zoned.
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office standing next to a crack in a footpath caused by liquefaction.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A heap of liquefaction silt outside 19 Reaby Street in the Horseshoe Lake area".
Building rubble and liquefaction on the footpath outside the former Public Library on the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A bicycle stand which has slumped into a liquefaction hole on the east side of the Armagh Street bridge".
A truck on Warden Street in Shirley waits to be loaded with liquefaction silt, which a digger in the background is scraping off the road. The photographer comments, "Liquefaction clean-up".
To identify key ground characteristics that led to different liquefaction manifestations during the Canterbury earthquakes
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Hague family in the family room area of their home at 7 Ching Gardens in Horseshoe Lake. They lived here after clearing away the liquefaction from September 2010, but the extent of liquefaction from the February 2011 earthquake was too great and they left their home on 22 February".
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. A large deposit of liquefaction has dried around it, and plants are growing up through the crack.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. A large deposit of liquefaction has dried around it, and plants are growing up through the crack.
A sign on Robson Avenue warning the public of "Low Power Lines". The power poles sank during the earthquake due to liquefaction destabilising the ground underneath.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A truck spraying water to keep the fine insidious liquefaction dust out of the air along Bower Avenue in New Brighton".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This gives some indication of the extent of liquefaction in the garden at 7 Ching Gardens".
Liquefaction silt which has been partly cleared from in front of businesses on Ferry Road. A damaged part of the footpath has also been filled in with gravel.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A driveway leading to houses at Seabreeze Close in Bexley is covered in liquefaction".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A section of a driveway at Seabreeze Close in Bexley is covered in liquefaction".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A driveway leading to houses at Seabreeze Close in Bexley is covered in liquefaction".
A photograph of a garage which has sunk into liquefaction on one side. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Brighton Road".
A photograph of several earthquake-damaged houses on Chester Street East. A pile of liquefaction silt is on the footpath in the foreground.
Part of the forecourt at the Shell Shirley petrol station has lifted above the rest, after the underground petrol tanks were pushed upwards by liquefaction. Liquefaction silt covers the lower part of the forecourt.
A photograph of a garage which has sunk into liquefaction on one side. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Brighton Road".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The rear of 14 Waygreen Avenue showing liquefaction nearly a metre deep around the clothes line".