Whilst the world’s media has been focusing on the rubble of the Christchurch CBD the story of the inhabitants of the eastern suburbs has gone largely untold and ignored. For 50,000-100,000 people their lives have increasingly become those of refugees. Please read this, written by blogger Peter Hyde, and help to put the message out…
The much waited for report into the 4 Sept Canterbury Quake has been released and not all remediation and protection work will be provided for by the Earthquake Commission’s insurance cover. Of the 16,630 properties that were inspected, 6855 suffered land damage. According to a report in The Press newspaper : The report identifies three…
Whilst attention has been mostly focused on the central part of Christchurch city following Saturday’s 7.1 magnitude quake, little has been told (or seen) about the devastation further out of town. Journalists at last seem to have escaped ‘media central’ in the City and travelled further afield to report on the true scale of the…
Earlier today we wrote about the Christchurch suburb of Bexley, where up to 90% of houses in the flat area had been damaged in the quake, in one street every house (all of them less than 5 years old and presumably ‘built to code’) may have have to be demolished. The NZ Herald has just…
The NZ Herald is today reporting that a whole street of damaged properties in the suburb of Bexley will have to be demolished after the land beneath them liquefied in during the magnitude 7.1 quake that hit the Christchurch area on 4 Sept 2010. Seabreeze Close, in the suburb of Bexley, yesterday had four diggers…
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