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Responses to Canterbury Earthquakes 2010-2011 - Coggle Diagram
Responses to Canterbury Earthquakes
2010-2011
Student Volunteer Army
The Student Volunteer Army (SVA) was mostly made up of university students in Canterbury. They cleaned up around Christchurch, more specifically helped clear up from the damage which liquefaction caused around the Avon and Heathcote rivers which flow through the CBD.
Knocked on doors and offered to help with liquefaction damage. Sam Johnson started a facebook page and from there, around 6,000 students joined.
Government
Financial support for businesses and employees
Declaring a
national state of emergency
- This enabled the government to make decisions like closing off the CBD and bringing in the army to help. It also initiated the disaster management from Civil Defence.
Creating zones in the Christchurch area. Surveying homes and establishing
red zones.
Set up CERA, the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Set up
Royal Commission
to investigate the reasons for building collapses and the impacts on the city. This found some major issues with buildings and planning for earthquakes and led to an apology from the mayor of Christchurch to the families of those that were killed or injured. It also found there could be criminal cases to answer for some building owners and/or designers/engineers.
Many changes to schools in CHCH were due to the government's help. They reopened Redcliffs school (eventually) and made efforts to remove or rebuild damaged schools.
Local Communities in CHCH and Canterbury
Rebuild Christchurch. A local, independent organisation to try and make sure community and business voices are heard as decisions are made in the Christchurch rebuild
The Christchurch Transitional Cathedral - or the Cardboard Cathedral - is a great example of a bigger community response.
Many local communities were set up to help the people who had lost homes, clean up around the city, help those who had lost family. Many of these communities aren't existent anymore or aren't as spoken about or easy to research because there isn't a current need for earthquake response community groups in Canterbury.
Groups of farmers banded together to help out in the rural community and within the CBD.
Community response
Community response - international students left the country, some on the same day. Many people left 30,000 permanently, others temporarily to get away from the shaking.
Urban Search and Rescue checked buildings, and engineers checked structural integrity of buildings, every house
Rangiora Earthquake Express brought in food
People from Wellington and TOp of the South collected together food and clothes to take to CHCH and help people - community response
Days without power, Orion, worked hard to get power back after underground cables were badly damaged.
Farmy Army had big equipment and ability to help in the community. ie Tractors, Federated Farmers organised farmy army, 1000 farmers and their tractors.
International Response
Japan, NSW