One of the country's largest schools, Burnside High School in Christchurch, has closed its administration block because it was found to be an earthquake ... of the school's library block, which ...

The shock caused considerable damage to buildings in Christchurch city centre and to houses in low-lying suburbs where the underlying soil suffered liquefaction. Apart from the earthquakes ...

A gripping and intimate portrait of how the day of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake unfolded for the trapped, the searchers, the rescuers, the hopeful and the grief-stricken ...

Sandy soils, silt, and gravel get separated with groundwater from a large earthquake, resulting in large ground deformations and effects. Liquefaction prediction is important in efforts to rebuild ...