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Alice almost finished digging Waterview tunnel
3news   09 October 2015   New Zealand   Auckland  
Alice almost finished digging Waterview tunnel
<p>The machine digging a massive tunnel at Auckland's Waterview Connection is within days of completing its two-year mission.<br />For the team driving the boring machine known as Alice, it'll be a bittersweet moment when she breaks through.<br />Grant Maclean ...
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Landslides in deep canyons in Cook Strait can set off 10-metre high tsunamis
Stuff.co.nz   07 October 2015   New Zealand   Cook Strait  
With arms stretching toward Wellington and into Palliser Bay, the Cook Strait Canyon provides another tsunami risk in the earthquake-prone area.
<p>Landslides in offshore canyons could cause tsunamis more than 10 metres high along parts of the Cook Strait coastline, scientists have calculated.</p> <p>Niwa and GNS Science researchers spent four years assessing the risk of tsunamis generated by landslides ...
6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EARTHQUAKE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
6icege   30 July 2015   New Zealand   Christchurch  
6icege
<p>Christchurch, the second largest city of New Zealand, was hit by a series of destructive earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 causing 185 fatalities and extensive damage to the buildings and lifelines of Canterbury (~$40 billion New Zealand dollars loss). While ...
Quarry landslide search reaches Murray Taylor's excavator cab
Stuff.co.nz   09 June 2015   New Zealand   Waikari  
<p>Murray George Taylor's excavator cab has been found collapsed as searchers shift 750 tonnes of rubble from the landslide that buried the quarry boss.</p> <p>Taylor, 56, who is the director of the Heathstock Haulage lime quarry, is feared dead after about ...
Quarry rock collapse buries digger in Canterbury
3news.co.nz   08 June 2015   New Zealand   Waikari  
<p>Specialist alpine cliff and mine rescue teams have been rushed to a Canterbury lime quarry in a desperate attempt to save a digger driver trapped under a landslide.<br />Paramedics have already been stood down from the scene, sparking fears for the man's ...
Trapped man rescued after rock fall near Leisure Island
A man is loaded into an ambulance after he fell onto rocks near Leisure Island, Mount Maunganui. Photo/Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service Facebook page
<p>A man has suffered serious injuries after falling onto rocks near Leisure Island at Mount Maunganui.</p><p>Emergency services were called to the man about 9.30am, after reports he had become trapped on the rocks after the fall. The man was found on an area ...
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Queenstown's $250 million construction boom
Stuff.co.nz   22 May 2015   New Zealand   Frankton  
John Edens / The 'Five Mile' construction site in Frankton, near Queenstown.
<p>Queenstown is in expansion mode with $250 million worth of construction underway or due to start in the next 18 months.</p> <p>This was expected to create up to 800 permanent jobs outside of the construction industry, Colliers International director John ...
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Rockfall-hit State Highway 3 at Manawatu Gorge to stay closed for fortnight
A slip has blocked State Highway 3 through the Manawatu Gorge.
<p>Another rock slip in the Manawatu Gorge will keep it closed for two weeks.The Manawatu Gorge section of State Highway 3 will remain closed for two weeks.The NZ Transport Agency announced the closure on Friday.A rockfall on Thursday was initially expected ...
Testing how the earth might move for Trafalgar Centre
The Nelson Mail   25 March 2015   New Zealand   Christchurch  
CPT test
<p>Ground work and testing is under way at the Trafalgar Centre as Nelson City Council pushes to meet the building's reopening deadline of next February. A large Fugro Geotechnical truck, one of two in the country, has arrived from Christchurch to test the ...
Work on deadly Mangaotaki Bluffs finished
Rockfall protection project
<p>The $2.5m project to secure a rockfall-prone cliff face above a stretch of State Highway 3 where a woman was killed last year is finished. New Plymouth woman Joy Thompson, 74, died last March when boulders crashed into the car she was travelling in just ...
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