Earthquake
Earthquake

Author: Chris Moore

Publisher:

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781869796990

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Powerfully and movingly written by a number of Press staffers and illustrated with striking images from the Press team. DVD includes footage taken 10 minutes after the quake, many personal stories plus the incredible footage that screened at the Day of Remembrance. Content includes: - Prelude to a disaster - What Christchurch was doing on February 22. How the debate of the September 4/Boxing Day quakes was continuing, how those events had shaped lives. - The Event - First hand accounts, the effect on buildings/people. How different areas of the city were affected - Lyttelton/Sumner/Redcliffs. CTV/Forsythe Barr/Pyne Gould Buildings. - An overview of the first hours after the main tremor, extending it into the first night. The official response. The international response. - The science of the earthquake - where centred, duration, energy released etc. Lots of graphs, maps and data. - Survivors stories - the mounting death toll, stories of tragedy and heroism, loss of heritage buildings, Grand Chancellor Hotel, international and local response (hospitals, search teams etc) - The aftermath, the search and rescue/recovery, the civil defence team, the emerging toll, the stories (The Bagpipe Kid, babies born, Farmy army), eastern suburbs claims of being forgotten, the student army, I thought you were dead column, looters in court. - Through to the Day Of Remembrance "Grief is the price we pay for love" (Prince William) - The rebuilding of Christchurch.

Christchurch, New Zealand, Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011
Christchurch, New Zealand, Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Author: Alex Tang

Publisher: ASCE Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9780784414217

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TCLEE 41 discusses in detail the performance of lifeline infrastructure systems following a series of four significant earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, during 2010 and 2011.

Animals in Emergencies
Animals in Emergencies

Author: Annie Potts

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927145500

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After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury on 4 September 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish, and that was only the first of a series of even more catastrophic quakes that were to follow, in which many humans and animals perished. Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes provides a record of what happened to the animals during and after these quakes, and asks what we can learn from these events and our response to them. The accounts of professionals and volunteers involved in the rescue, shelter and advocacy of the city's animals post-quakes are presented in the first part of the book, and are followed by the tales of individual animals. These accounts provide an honest and compelling historical record of how Christchurch's seismic activity affected human-animal relationships in both positive and negative ways. We share our lives with a variety of companion animals, including dogs, cats, horses, fish, birds, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and turtles, and the stories of how the Canterbury earthquakes affected these animals are absorbing, sometimes heart-breaking and often heart-warming. The book also reports on the fate of urban wildlife such as hedgehogs, eels and seabirds, in the aftermath of liquefaction and other damage caused by the more than 20,000 aftershocks since the first major earthquake, and considers the particular risks to animals most vulnerable when disasters strike - those confined on farms and in laboratories.

Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss
Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss

Author: Sinan Akkar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3030688135

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This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake damage assessment, the state-of-art and novel earthquake loss modeling, their implementation and implication in insurance pricing at national, regional and global levels, and the role of earthquake insurance in building resilient societies and fire following earthquakes. The rich context encompassed in the book makes it a valuable tool not only for professionals and researchers dealing with earthquake loss modeling but also for practitioners in the insurance and reinsurance industry.

Business and Post-disaster Management
Business and Post-disaster Management

Author: C. Michael Hall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317276345

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and on a range of stakeholders, including employees and consumers. Research on how communities and businesses respond to disasters can inform policy and mitigate the cost and impacts of future disasters. This book discusses how places recover following a disaster and the vital roles that business and other organisations play. This volume gives a detailed understanding of business, organisational and consumer responses to the Christchurch earthquake sequence of 2010-2011, which caused 185 deaths, the loss of over 70 per cent of buildings in the city’s CBD, major infrastructure damage, and severely affected the city’s image. Despite the devastation, the businesses, organisations and people of Christchurch are now undergoing significant recovery. The book sheds significant new light not only on business and organisation response to disaster but on how business and urban systems may be made more resilient.

All Fall Down
All Fall Down

Author: Geoff Rice

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927145104

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A visual history of Christchurch chimneys--domestic, commercial, and industrial--this book describes the chimneys' design origins, functions, and modifications. Documenting the typical styles of successive periods, from late Victorian through Art Deco to the latest versions on modern homes, this record demonstrates the diverse heritage of European chimneys replicated in colonial New Zealand. Following up on the devastation caused by two earthquakes--in September 2010 and the following February--the book provides insight into those historical events, as well as photos of architectural structures that were later completely destroyed.

Responders
Responders

Author: Pete Seager

Publisher: Keswin Pub.

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780958278034

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Behind the scenes of the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake and the Civil Defence & Emergency Management registered volunteer teams deployment.

Canterbury Quake
Canterbury Quake

Author: Desna Wallace

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781775431824

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"Maddy is a typical 11-year-old girl living in Christchurch - her diary starts in early August with her desperate for a mobile phone, and talking about her best friend Laura, Glee and singing in the school choir, homework, teachers, her siblings ... And then the first earthquake hits on 4 September and her world changes"--Publisher information.

Earthquakes and Health Monitoring of Civil Structures
Earthquakes and Health Monitoring of Civil Structures

Author: Mihail Garevski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9400751826

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Health monitoring of civil structures (HMS) is a new discipline, which contributes to successful and on time detection of damages to structures. This book is a collection of chapters on different topics written by leading scientists in the field. It is primarily focused on the latest achievements in monitoring the earthquake effect upon the health of civil structures. The first chapter of the book deals with the geotechnical and structural aspects of the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes. Further chapters are dedicated to the latest HMS techniques of identification of damage to structures caused by earthquakes. Real time damage detection as well as sensors and acquisition systems used for that purpose are presented. The attention is focused on automated modal analysis, dynamic artificial neural networks and wavelet techniques used in HMS. Particular emphasis is put on wireless sensors and piezo-impendance transducers used for evaluation of seismically induced structural damage. The discussion is followed by presentation of case studies of application of health monitoring for buildings and other civil structures, including a super tall structure. The book ends with a presentation of shaking table tests on physical models for the purpose of monitoring their behaviour under earthquake excitation. Audience The book is primarily intended for engineers and scientists working in the field of application of the HMS technique in earthquake engineering. Considering that real time health monitoring of structures represents a sophisticated approach applying the latest techniques of monitoring of structures, many experts from other industries will also find this book useful.