The destruction of the Royal Hotel on the corner of Norwich Quay and Canterbury Street.
A photograph submitted by Ginny Larsen to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "April 2011 Overwhelmed by the destruction of our city".
The destruction of the Ground Culinary Centre on London Street. A digger is sitting on top of a pile of rubble. This site will soon be made into the Lyttelton Petanque Club.
A collapsed two-storey house. The photographer comments, "After we finally made it to our home in the Aranui and Bexley areas, we saw a different level of destruction. Some houses were badly damaged such as this one where the top floor had collapsed onto the ground floor".