Car-sized rock removed after quake shifting

  • 12/05/2016
Car-sized rock removed after quake shifting

A rock the size of a car has been removed from a cliff face near Sumner in Christchurch, after a 4.7 quake struck at 8:45pm on Wednesday night.

Engineers have been monitoring the cliff face with lasers, and noticed the 5m high rock gave shifted about 300mm.

On Thursday morning, a team of abseillers inserted airbags behind the rock. They then inflated the airbags, forcing the rock off the cliff.

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