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sand volcano

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

(I righted the bird bath after the initial earthquake. None of the after-shocks were sufficient to knock it over again.)

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 volcano versus vegetables

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sand volcano craters

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Castle Rock scarred

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The magnitude 7.1 Christchurch earthquake broke off an enormous chunk of Castle Rock in the Port Hills which has tumbled down towards the Lyttelton tunnel. View from Morgan's Valley (-43.578037° 172.714828°).

the day after

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Cleaning up the silt and sand from Hoon Hay properties. Here Laura, Robbie, and Ronny are part of the clean-up crew on Wyn Street.

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.

earthquake kink

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Telegraph Road was a straight road before the recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake. The fault ran right through here and now the road has a dramatic kink in it.