Quake City

Spent the day walking around Christchurch, seeing the different tourist attractions. Very well done museum about the earthquakes that have struck Christchurch. A big one in in 2010, and a fatal one in 2011 which killed quite a few people and decimated a lot of the Christchurch area. Videos and eyewitness recollections, explanations on liquefaction, artefacts from fallen buildings, info about rescue efforts and the global response to help ChCh. Very well done and informative.
The liquefaction that occurred is due to the high groundwater level and size of the sediment in the ground. The shaking basically turned the ground into liquid, like what happens when you stomp on a wet beach, and so buildings sunk into the ground and telephone poles tipped over, and afterwards there was silt everywhere that needed to be cleaned upRead more