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°).

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Canterbury Earthquake 7.1

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Rolleston/Burnham, South Island, NZ It's been a busy few weeks! Was away on geology fieldtrips all the previous two weeks, then on Saturday morning 4th September 2010 at 4.35 am we got woken in Westport to a reasonable but very long earthquake. My husband was back in Christchurch at the time and texted me saying "are you ok?". I replied, "yes!"...

sand volcano versus path

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sand volcano landscape

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sand volcano versus driveway

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sand volcano versus lawn

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sand volcano versus shed

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sand volcano versus shed

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sand volcano versus vegetables

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sand volcano craters

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sand volcano gushing

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sand volcano in our front lawn

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This one was really flowing out of the ground.

sand volcano in a Wyn Street lawn

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Rydal Park sand volcano

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These were scattered across the park.

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Robbie watches a sand volcano smother his driveway.

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Debra points at the beginnings of a sand volcano not long after the big earthquake.

Footpath cracks next to Rydal Park.

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Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.

sand volcano crater

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An usual thing to see coming from the ground in Hoon Hay, Christchurch.

sand volcano in our front lawn

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The earthquake knocked over the bird bath.

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

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Laura, Nicola, and Debra watch a sand volcano build in the Wyn Street gutter.

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And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.

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.