Ten days since the Christchurch earthquake and looting is still going on in the city. News reports are studiously avoiding the use of the L word (“police staff in the city centre have clamped down on any reports of looting…”) preferring instead to refer to the preying on earthquake victims as ‘burglary.’ A recent report…
We’ve found a very useful Environment Canterbury document “Solid Facts on Liquefaction in Christchurch” It details areas of Christchurch that have high, moderate and low liquefaction potential, explains what liquefaction is, how it is caused and the effects it has. We think it may have been written before the 4 September Quake because it seems…
Kaiapoi, one of the small towns that suffered the worst damage in Saturday’s 7.1 Christchurch earthquake, is said to have been changed forever and “will never be the same” according to the mayor of Waimakariri District, Ron Keating . Away from the hype of the media circus of the Christchurch CBD the…
We came across a very touching account of what it’s like to live through the Christchurch earthquakes today. This is taken from a blog called From On Words and Upwards, it’s a record of the toll that the unrelenting quakes are having on the brave people of Christchurch and how, despite their fears and weariness,…
Another large quake hit the Christchurch area at 7.49 this morning, it was believed to have been a 6.1 but that has now been downgraded. Twitter user are posting that major cracks have appeared in the Lyttelton tunnel – it has been closed, and that Plains FM Radio Station is being evacuated. The station broadcasts…
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