Is Christchurch on a fault line? The Christchurch Fault is anactive seismic fault running under the city of Christchurchin the middle of New Zealand's South Island. It runs from an area close to Riccarton, under the Central City, through the eastern suburbs off the coast of New Brighton....
Davey, F. 2011. Natural hazards--the Christchurch earthquakes. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(2): 149-150.Davey, F. (2011). Natural hazards - the Christchurch Earthquakes. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 54(2), 149-150....
DURING March 1943, fifteen strong earthquakes were registered by the seismographs at Auckland, Arapuni, Bunnythorpe, Christchurch, Kaimata, New Plymouth, Tuai and Wellington, all stations participating in the New Zealand Seismological Service and sending records or readings to the Dominion Observatory ...
Tūranga Library, Christchurch. Image © Adam Mørk Schmidt Hammer Lassen ArchitectsandArchitectushave announced the opening ofTūranga, the new central library forChristchurch,New Zealand. Built to address the earthquakes that damaged Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, the library is one of the first...
University of South Florida;Taylor & Francis GroupPapers in Applied GeographyHutton, N., G. Tobin, and L. Whiteford. 2015 a. Migrant labor relations: the role of non-profits following the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Papers in Applied Geography, 1(4): 365-372....
(Wood-Anderson), New Plymouth (Wood-Anderson), Hastings (Jaggar), Bunnythorpe (Jaggar), Wellington Central Station (Galitzin-Wilip, Milne-Shaw, Wood-Anderson, Jones, Imamura), Ta-kaka (Imamura), Greymouth (Jaggar), Christchurch (Galitzin three components, Wood-Anderson), and Monowai (...
Earthquakes don't kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits of buildings are the first to fall, even in relatively mild earthquakes like the ones Victoria gets from time to time. Building back better After Christchurch, New Zealand learned our lesson and reformed our building ...
and landslides on coastal cliffs, the natural hazard the state is linked with is earthquakes. New Zealand also has strike-slip earthquakes, about 20,000 a year, but only a small percentage of those are large enough to be felt. A 6.3 quake in Christchurch in February 2011 killed about 180...
After a series of recent earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, the most devastating of which condemned large tracts of the city to the wrecking ball, some critics have suggested that this presents the opportunity to enhance the city during the rebuilding ...
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand South Island city of Christchurch on Tuesday, causing scores of people dead and mass destruction of building. The following are the biggest earthquakes in New Zealand history: -- 8.2 on the Richter scale, Wairarapa, Jan. 23, 1855 -- The most sev...