Christchurch earthquake

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New walk honours Christchurch earthquake memories 12 years on (1 News)

Twelve years ago today, the city was rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake which claimed 185 lives.

"We have a lot of visitors in the central city. "We have about 30 different voices, memories of people who were in the city on February 22, 2011. It's a big part of what defines us as a community, as a city and as individuals, so we want to honour those memories," she said. We realised that we have to get ourselves out of here. "There are still some people who do not want to come back into the central city, because they can't really see the connection between the pre-quake and post-quake city. We discovered that the stairwells were down ...

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Stories from deadly Christchurch earthquake come to life in new ... (Stuff.co.nz)

The Our Stories Project Trust is behind the audio walk, which starts at the Quake City museum in Durham St and finishes at the Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake ...

* People can listen to it through the

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Quake stories come to life with new audio walk (Mirage News)

A new digital audio experience using memories from the University of Canterbury CEISMIC archive launched today, connecting powerful quake memories to.

We built CEISMIC so that the stories of the Christchurch earthquakes wouldn’t be forgotten, and this audio trail brings those stories to life.” I hope this will be a tool in the process of healing and in reconciling the pre-quake city with the post-quake city we live in today. “Since the borders reopened last year, we’ve seen more visitors to our city who are interested in the story of the earthquakes.

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