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Wellington earthquake risk map - a Tableau data visualisation

While our Performance Engineering team is usually more concerned with systems and software, the recent events in Christchurch have made us all think a little more about the Engineering of Buildings.  I, like most Wellingtonians, am acutely aware of the risk we also live with everyday.

On Friday the Wellington City Council released a list of Buildings in Wellington that they consider an Earthquake risk. In the below Tableau data visualisation you might want to take a look at your home and work addresses and assess the known issues in your immediate surroundings. You can zoom around by selecting “Zoom with Mouse” in the menu list under the arrow cursor icon. You can zoom out with <ctrl> <click> or reset view with Revert All.

Note: where a building listed has the term ’Section 124 Served’, this means earthquake-prone building notices issued under Section 66 of the Building Act 1991 have been reissued a notice under Section 124 of the Building Act 2004 requiring strengthening.

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