14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Port Hills Rd, Christchurch
14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Port Hills Rd, Christchurch
14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Bridle Path Rd, Christchurch
14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Bridle Path Rd, Christchurch
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M5 aftershock last night, conversation stopper at my postponed birthday meal: house jolted, shook, creaked. 5 October 10.07am.
@Sheila. Latest count reported by The Press, since 4 September, M7.1 Darfield Quake: we've endured "1439 seismic shocks as of 9pm Tuesday October 5," yet scientists haven't ascertained if there's a fault under Christchurch or not. Shocks so far all epicentre out of Christchurch. Leah now enjoying holidays. Back to work next week. Luke now doing technical theory. No practical due to collarbone mending. Jake relaxing, no work! 6 October 9.42pm.
[After the Boxing Day quake, which would cause more damage to Christchurch, especially Cashel Mall, scientists found a west-east, Christchurch Fault under Christchurch CBD.]
14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Bridle Path, Port Hills
M5.0 aftershock yesterday afternoon, 5+ weeks post M7.1 quake. Parker elected Christchurch mayor again.
Leah's back at work. Luke's back at tech with a smaller collarbone sling. Jake's looking for new restaurant work: interviews. 14 October 10.45pm.
@Sheila. Several big aftershocks recently: Mon M4.1, Tues M4 & M5, the latter a whopper as it was shallow, close to Halswell & Taitapu near Christchurch. Bounced my car for about half a minute. 14 October 11pm.
@Werner. NZ is on the Pacific & Australian tectonic plates, so there's lots of seismic activity in NZ, mostly unnoticed or ignored by locals.
See GeoNet website for daily quakes / aftershocks in NZ.
Spectacular aftershocks now, as the M7.1, Sept 4 Darfield Quake was close to Christchurch. Seismologists hadn't a clue it was coming, blamed a 16 000 year old side-fault off the Alpine Fault in the Southern Alps.
A NZ map will show you the big Alpine Fault, 10km-20km below, running in a south to north direction (similar to the Californian San Andreas Fault) going up the South Island to the Pacific, where the two plates meet, hence the quakes.
Aftershocks pressure & release causes more pressure & release elsewhere, hence more aftershocks along a fault line.
Seismiologists can't predict quakes & aftershocks yet.
Christchurch is built on swampland & alluvial-plains, so quakes cause silt-liquefaction where tons of underground-silt oozes up in mounds, volcanoes or boils, together with underground-water causing damage in riverside areas or old swampland, especially after soil-saturating rains. As Christchurch had heavy rains pre Sept 4 quake, there was lots of liquefaction-damage. And riverside or swampy suburbs already have underground-water. 21 October 4.15pm.
14.11.10. Bridle Path view, Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Port Hills
M4.1 & Tues M4.0; M5.0 aftershocks. My car bounced like in a porn movie. 21 October 5.59pm.
14.11.10. Castle Rock after the quake landslide, Bridle Path, Port Hills
Christchurch is recovering in patches, some rebuilds, repairs are quick, some stalled. 31 October 5.53pm.
@Pam. There'll be enough buildings left for you to see. People are still assessing whether to demolish or not, like Elmo Court (on TVNZ two nights ago): varsity tested the strength of concrete in Elmo Court as it costs as much to rebuild as to repair.
I look more at older buildings now, marvel at how some survived, others not. Random. Saw several older buildings patched, repaired. When you visit soon, you'll see which builldings were repaired, which weren't damaged. 31 October 9.24pm.
14.11.10. Bridle Path view, Castle Rock quake landslide, Port Hills
Labour weekend, I drove along reopened Summit Rd, Port Hills, see Castle Rock fall: Block about the size of a three-storey building ended its gouge near Bridle Path. 3 November 4.15am.
@Janet. Saw the fall on a Google Map satellite pic in The Press recently. Hard to see the fall from Christchurch side, as it's on a slope off Heathcote Valley, but easily seen from Summit Rd. Will go up Bridle Path next week before the rockfall grasses over again. Massive brown gouge down Port Hills, clean-rocks shattered off the E side of Castle Rock. Rock-climbers will want to find new climbs after the dust settles. 3 November 5.10pm.
[Castle Rock rockfall, a harbinger of worse to come in Port Hills suburbs in the 22 February 2010 quake].
14.11.10. Bridle Path view, Castle Rock quake landslide, Port hills
Two months sharing portaloos with neighbours: Two months post-quake a SA family living near Brooklands Lagoon left portaloos for dodgy sewage- reconnection. They wait for the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to settle whether their liquefaction-damaged home will be rebuilt or not. 9 November 1.17am.
@Jason. Some riverside & swamp-suburbs were badly damaged by liquefaction, silt-mounds everywhere. Other "dry" suburbs like ours were relatively unscathed. Monday's The Press said undamaged-suburbs now have slightly improved house-prices, the market responds. I doubt people would want to buy houses in suburbs affected by liquefaction-mud. 10 November 9.01am.
14.11.10. Two big rocks at the bottom of Castle Rock quake landslide, Bridle Path, Port Hills. See 2 people sitting by a rock
The Star advert, 5 November 2010: Message from Simpson, EQC boss:
"It is worth noting that while we report that we have received 110 263 claims these actually break down in many cases into separate claims for buildings only, contents only and land only. The total of these is currently 139 301.
The Insurance Council is calling Canterbury earthquake the single largest insurance event in New Zealand's history and of course we agree. The private insurers collectively and EQC on its own have each received over 100 000 claims. We believe that it means that the EQC is handling the largest number of claims by any single insurance company ever in the southern hemisphere...
Our project manager Fletcher Construction has been establishing our first site office for repairs in the $10 000 to $100 000 range this week and we now expect to see the work to start in earnest...
[EQC dithered two months post-quake, waiting for a geotech report before repairs. People with damaged-properties, angry with EQC].
Claims Settlement Status
The overall process for 4 291 claims is complete, the inspection & assessment process for 13 061 is complete but the final paperwork for them is not, the inspection & assessment process for another 13 831 is underway, and work on the remaining 78 934 claims has yet to start..."
EQC's $100 000 cap for a damaged-house would be a stumbling-block for claimants, EQC & insurers, causing years of delayed-settlements for some claimants...
14.11.10. Sheep & big rocks at the bottom of Castle Rock quake landslide, Bridle Path, Port Hills
14.11.10. Walkers & a big rock at the bottom of Castle Rock quake landslide, Bridle Path, Port Hills
*Trekked Bridle Path Rd, Bridle Path. 12 snaps.
Coda:
2023. From Summit Rd, Jake & a mate would climb the new Castle Rock. They took a 360 degree, drone-video of themselves sitting on top, viewing new Christchurch after its slow-rebuild.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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