Quakes Monday 16th July 2012

[TonyC]

Public Id: 2012p532859
NZST: Monday, July 16 2012 at 3:47:19 pm
Intensity: light
Depth: 7 km
Magnitude: 2.8
Location: 10 km south-east of Oxford

Reference Number: 3739167
NZST: Mon, Jul 16 2012 4:47 am
Magnitude: 2.9
Depth: 8 km
Details: 20 km south-east of Christchurch

Public Id: 2012p531538
NZST: Monday, July 16 2012 at 4:04:13 am
Intensity: light
Depth: 12 km
Magnitude: 2.8
Location: 5 km west of Taihape

Reference Number: 3739073
NZST: Mon, Jul 16 2012 0:34 am
Magnitude: 3.9
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km north of Murchison

• Tweet

[Suezy]

Newstalk building to be imploded

ANNA TURNE

Last updated 13:01 16/07/2012


Joseph Johnson
RADIO NETWORK HOUSE: Former home to Newstalk ZB.

A central Christchurch building will be demolished by implosion next month.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has approved the implosion of the 14-storey Radio Network House building in Worcester St.
The building was deemed unsafe after the February 2011 earthquake.
Workers have started removing cladding from the southern façade of the building.
This will be the first demolition by implosion in the city since the quake demolitions began. It will take place on Sunday, August 5.
More details on how the implosion will be carried out will be released tomorrow morning.

[Suezy]

Bus Tour Video - showing inside the Red Zone.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/7286323/Bus-tours-show-life-after-man

Passengers on the red-zone bus tour are being given a glimpse of ''life after man'' as the bus weaves its way through central Christchurch.

The latest addition to the Red Bus fleet will take people behind the central-city cordons, starting tomorrow.

The tours feature a new ''streamlined'' bus, complete with two large video screens that will display pre-earthquake images, accompanied by a commentary from a Canterbury Museum guide.

A trial run with the media onboard was held today.

The bus weaves from outside the Canterbury Museum past Cranmer Square, along Salisbury and Barbadoes streets and into the cordoned-off central city, including through Cathedral Square.

It stops outside the Canterbury Television site, where 115 people died, and beside quake-hit Christ Church Cathedral.

Museum guide Virginia Malcolmson said the tours were designed to tell people about the quakes, what had happened since and what would happen next.

As Malcolmson talks, images of Christchurch before and after the quakes flash up on the screens.

What has come down, what will come down and what is coming down are pointed out.

Malcolmson described looking at Victoria Square as seeing a glimpse of ''life after man''.

Red Bus chief executive Paul McNoe hoped the tours would tell Christchurch's story.

''It's saying this event's happened, but here's why, '' he said.

''It's talking about where the city's going and about the recovery process.''

The tours will run daily between 10am and 2pm. They will last about half an hour and cost $15.