Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits are the first to fall
- Written by: Ann L Brower, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, University of Canterbury
James Ross/AAPNews of Melbourne’s earthquake today made my left leg hurt. That’s the leg I nearly lost.
On February 22 2011, there were nine of us on a red bus from Sumner to Canterbury University in Christchurch. At 12.51, the unreinforced brick facade of 605 Colombo Street crushed our bus and four pedestrians. I felt brick after brick...