Tagged: Kaiapoi

Boulevard of Broken Dreams — Kaiapoi, PtII - Shaken Not Stirred

Jesse Dykstra • Oct 12, 2010 •

• Canterbury,
• Christchurch,
• disaster,
• earthquake,
• Fault,
• Kaiapoi,
• liquefaction,
• New Zealand

The Story of Kaiapoi (Continued) Photo: Jesse Dykstra On one particularly hard-hit Kaiapoi street, I spoke to a resident who expressed an increasingly sense of helplessness as aftershocks continued to tear his home apart. His family feared that they would be unable to live in their home for much longer.  Others in the neighborhood spoke of frustration that they had not yet received any … Read More

Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Kaiapoi, PtI - Shaken Not Stirred

Jesse Dykstra • Oct 08, 2010 •

• Canterbury,
• Christchurch,
• disaster,
• earthquake,
• Fault,
• Kaiapoi,
• liquefaction,
• New Zealand

Not a Memory Yet Photo: Jesse Dykstra It has now been over 4 weeks since the Darfield earthquake rocked Canterbury, yet aftershocks continue to terrorize the region. Monday night, a magnitude 5 aftershock (the largest since Sept 8th) rattled Christchurch, and early this morning a magnitude 4.4 rumble served notice that the Greendale fault has not yet finished … Read More