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6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

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Burglaries rise for quake-weary Chch residents

Published: 3:27PM Wednesday May 04, 2011 Source: ONE News

Christchurch police are urging quake-weary householders to keep an eye on their neighbourhoods and ensure their homes are well secured after a jump in night-time burglaries last weekend.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/burglaries-rise-quake-weary-chch-residents-4154896
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

Japanese students show confidence in ChCh

Many international students have decided against studying in Christchurch this year, but one language school has attracted more pupils than usual.

The Southern Cross Language Institute welcomed 49 pupils from Japan last week - nine more than last year.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ne...339/Japanese-students-show-confidence-in-ChCh
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

Fix - Fasten - Forget

Simple instructions on how to prevent earthquake damage and protect you and your family from earthquakes.

View as PDF (1.2MB).
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

Light is at the end of the tunnel for Christchurch's eastern suburbs with electricity network Orion announcing it expects to complete repairs to high voltage underground cables, damaged by the February earthquake, within the next three weeks.

About 90 percent of the more than 600 known high voltage 11 kilovolt cable faults in the badly affected eastern suburbs have now been repaired.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/chr...in-sight-for-major-Christchurch-power-repairs
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

The Burwood resource recovery park in Bottle Lake Forest Park has about 100,000 tonnes of rubble in stacks up to 25 metres high from the wreckage caused by the deadly February 22 earthquake.

Initial estimates were that 4.25 million tonnes of rubble and 380,000 tonnes of silt would be recycled at the site, which was set up by the city council in March.

Civil Defence last month revised the estimates to 8 million tonnes of rubble and 500,000 tonnes of silt and sand.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ne...973718/Rubble-from-the-ruins-stacked-25m-high
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

The study questioned 684 students from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) and Canterbury and Lincoln universities six weeks after the quake.
They were asked about the effects on their studies, finances, shopping behaviour, sleep patterns, diet and anxiety levels.



THE STUDY FOUND
28.9 per cent of students questioned drank more alcohol after the February earthquake.
22.5 per cent suffered some form of financial hardship.
25 per cent plan to leave Christchurch after their studies are completed.
33.9 per cent are storing food in case of aftershocks.
46 per cent suffered disturbed sleep patterns.
67 per cent had their social lives affected.



http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ne...11/4973720/Quakes-impact-on-wellbeing-studied
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

Ideas needed for rebuild
SAM SACHDEV

Christchurch residents are being urged to share their ideas on the future of the earthquake-hit central city.

The Christchurch City Council yesterday launched its Share an Idea campaign to encourage residents to have their say about how the city centre should look.


WHAT WILL NOT CHANGE

The central business district will not be relocated.

More than 50 per cent of buildings within the red zone are likely to have survived the earthquake and will remain in their current form.

The form and function of Hagley Park will remain the same.

The Avon River's course will not be changed.

The grid pattern of inner-city streets will remain, but there may be changes to traffic flows.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/4973730/Ideas-needed-for-rebuild



International urban design experts to assist Christchurch


6 May 2011
Two international urban design experts arrive in Christchurch next week to work with the Christchurch City Council on developing the draft Central City Plan.

David Sim and Simon Goddard from Copenhagen-based Gehl Architects will spend the next four weeks in Christchurch working with the Council’s urban design team on the draft Plan.

David Sim, a Director of Gehl Architects, has worked with the company since 2002. The Scottish architect/urban designer has worked in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. His recent projects include developing a masterplan for the first settlement in a Scottish National Park with 1500 dwellings; a new urban centre for a Swedish town on an existing brown fields site with new commercial and retail spaces, community facilities and public space; and completing the 2010 Edinburgh City Centre Public Space Public Life report.

Simon Goddard has consulted internationally on projects in the public and private sector. The architect/urban designer began working for Gehl Architects this year, after seven years employed in Australia.
Council Central City Plan Project Sponsor Michael Theelen says the team from Gehl Architects are best placed to assist with the development of the Plan as they had previously worked with the Council on a vision for the Central City.
“The Gehl team has a good knowledge of how our Central City looked and functioned before the earthquakes. This knowledge will be critical as we put together the Central City Plan and develop a new vision for the area.

“Much of what we need to achieve was outlined in the A City for People Action Plan, developed from the Gehl Architects Public Space Public Life Study of Christchurch’s Central City. This Plan looked at creating a Central City which celebrated its amenities, provided a wide range of activities, had attractive and inviting public spaces and human pace.”

Mr Theelen says these will all be areas which will be addressed as part of the Central City Plan, which will take a holistic approach – economic, social, cultural and environmental – to redeveloping the Central City.
City.


http://www.ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/newsmedia/mediareleases/2011/201105062.aspx
 
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/canterbury-earthquake/74509/community-garden-a-temporary-home-for-loved-plants
Community garden a temporary home for loved plants

Updated at 6:40pm on 5 May 2011

Christchurch gardeners forced to leave their homes because of the February earthquake are being invited to move their plants to a community garden until they can return home...
Click to expand...

(The article says that the garden could be needed for another 2 years.)
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

Christchurch will always be the Garden City :)
 
Re: 6.3 and 5.9 Earthquakes Hit Christchurch New Zealand February 22 2011 - Heavy Damage - Deaths

It is a beautiful place - maybe the new garden will evolve into a permanent public garden. :)
 
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'Yuki's House' honors daughter lost in N.Z. quake

KYOTO--The family of a Kyoto woman killed by the powerful earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, in February plans to build a house for international students near the city in memory of 23-year-old Yumi Hamasaki......

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110527003573.htm
 
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