Today marks the 2 year anniversary of the Canterbury Earthquake that hit at 4.35am on the morning of September 4th. It was a huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake which caused a lot of damage around Christchurch. Luckily no one was…
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Christchurch Cathedral It’s 500 days since Sept 4th 2010 (the night of the first big 7.4 earthquake) and Cantabrians (i.e. us) have endured 9500 quakes (and counting), which equates to about one quake (of magnitude 3+) felt every four…
A year ago few of us had ever heard of the word “liquefaction”, let alone knew what it was. Today, it’s part of our everyday language – particularly if you live in the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. At 12.51pm…