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- Terra Probe
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- Workers operate a drilling rig inside a Terra Probe truck, which has been raised on jacks to make it stable. The photographer comments, "Another completely different company testing what is below the surface to determine what type of foundations new houses will need. This is in one the blue/green area of earthquake shaken Christchurch. Strangely this is 3 metres away from where the other testing was done".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 4:32am 8th May 2012
- Tags
- drilling, testing, probe, soil, liquefaction, geotechnical, Opus, truck, EQC, 22 February 2011
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- The Samples
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- A box containing drilling cores from soil sampling. The photographer comments, "These are the samples from drilling near my home. As you can see they are not so much samples as sand piles. The drill in a nearby street went down 20m and it was sand all the way. This is the box of samples from the ground level to 4.6m deep".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 9:18pm 17th April 2012
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, liquefaction, silt, sand, EQC, geotechnical, investigation, TC3, blue green land, drilling, sample, sampling, soil, check, checking, box
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- You Know the Drill
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- Workers operate a drilling rig, sampling soil as part of EQC's geotechnical investigation of TC3 land. The photographer comments, "The work of getting 'soil' samples from all the areas marked as green/blue zones in Christchurch. These areas may be susceptible to liquefaction if a major earthquake occurs. The soil samples were a failure as all they found was sand".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 9:21pm 17th April 2012
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, liquefaction, silt, sand, EQC, geotechnical, investigation, TC3, blue green land, pro-drill, worksite, drilling, sample, sampling, soil, sign, check, checking
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- Empowered Christchurch Social Media Campaigns: Seismic Risk
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A poster created by Empowered Christchurch to advertise their submission to the CERA Draft Transition Recovery Plan on social media.
The poster reads, "Submission, CERA Draft Transition Recovery Plan. Seismic Risk. One thing we can learn from the past is that seismic risk in Canterbury has been underestimated before the earthquakes struck. This is confirmed in a report for EQC in 1991 (paper 2005). It is also the conclusion of the Royal Commission in the CTV report. A number of recommendations have been made but not followed. For example, neither the AS/NZS 1170.5 standard nor the New Zealand Geotechnical Society guidelines have been updated. Yet another recovery instrument is the Earthquake Prone Building Act, which is still to be passed by Parliament. As the emergency response part of the recovery is now behind us, we need to ensure sustainability for what lies ahead. We need a city that is driven by the people that live in it, and enabled by a bureaucracy that accepts and mitigates risks, rather than transferring them to the most vulnerable residents."
- Tags
- Empowered Christchurch, CERA, Draft Transition Recovery Plan, Royal Commission, CTV, New Zealand Geotechnical Society, Earthquake Prone Building Act, Government and Politics