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# *1/12/11, 12:01 pm |* Civic Building Instrumented with CUSP accelerograph & alerting system

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A CUSP-M strong-motion accelerograph array installed in December 2011, records the December 22nd earthquakes and aftershocks and accelerates the reoccupation of the Christchurch Civic Building, the City’s nerve centre.

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