Jun 20, 2011

New videos of the 13th June earthquakes in Christchurch have surfaced on YouTube. The two large aftershocks on that Monday were both centred along the coast past Sumner. Sumner and Redcliffs have already had a really hard time with the earthquake and aftershocks. The situation hasn’t been helped by the fact that there’s only one main road out of the...

Jun 19, 2011

A friend just showed me a video which would be close to the hearts of many Cantabrians right now. In fact, when you watch this video, be sure to swap the word ‘Californians’ with ‘Cantabrians’ and swap ‘Beirut’ for ‘Auckland’ or even ‘Australia’. Basically it’s an Animaniacs video where the...

Jun 17, 2011

Whoever had access to the security camera footage at Dyer’s Road ITM has put together a fantastic video that shows just how dramatic the earthquake was on 13th June 2011. And to make it even more epic, they’ve added some quite dramatic music! This impressive video, put together by David Nutsford (of ITM I assume) shows just how powerful the...

Jun 15, 2011

Twitter is a brilliant source of information – both serious and lighthearted – on the Christchurch earthquake. To demonstrate some of the images and comments that people post on Twitter following an aftershock, you can checkout the below collection. This is through an app I’ve just found called ‘Storify‘. I came across it on the NZ...

Jun 13, 2011

Sigh. So there’s been another earthquake. Well, series of earthquakes. The first significant quake was a 5.4 or 5.5 that happened just after lunch and hit out to the east of Christchurch. That quake had my office hiding under desks but for some reason I was stupid enough to stay at my desk, holding onto my monitor. It had a large progressive build up...

May 26, 2011

So it’s now confirmed that the Hotel Grand Chancellor is to be demolished. Details have been released by EQC that suggest the stage-by-stage demolition could take up to 10 months and will cost a shed load of money. The problem is the potential damage to surrounding buildings that aren’t damaged enough to be demolished. The hotel’s proximity to...