Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line runs across the paddocks and road and into the distance".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Brooklands area is having a street party to lift their spirits as their area is a mess after the September 4 M7.1 earthquake".
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team taking photograph through a car window. In the distance is the earthquake-damaged tower of the ChristChurch Cathedral.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hold on to your hats. There's a big 7.1 aftershock coming! Ralph Bungard owner of Three Boys Brewery testing the beer that started being brewed the night of the Christchurch Earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hold on to your hats. There's a big 7.1 aftershock coming! Ralph Bungard owner of Three Boys Brewery testing the beer that started being brewed the night of the Christchurch Earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Members of the Red Cross civil defence response team and South Canterbury Police have been in Christchurch helping with the earthquake clean up. Pictured from left are Jeff Tollan and John Bisset".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake aftermath. PM John Key does the meet and greet where families are taking refuge at Twiggers Restaurant at Addington Raceway. Pictured here with Anne Maries Phillips aged 11 from Parklands".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hold on to your hats. There's a big 7.1 aftershock coming! Ralph Bungard owner of Three Boys Brewery testing the beer that started being brewed the night of the Christchurch Earthquake".
The cartoon is a spoof of Rodin's famous sculpture 'The thinker' and shows it with a globe for its head. It holds a newspaper that reads 'Massive 'quake in Japan - ChCh. 'quake, China 'quake, Aus. Floods fires etc. etc.' The thinker ponders 'What's with all these disasters?..' Context - The massive earthquake in Japan that led to a devastating tsunami and now threats from several damaged nuclear power stations, the earthquakes in Christchurch on 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011, the 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Yingjiang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province on March 15, 2011, and the January floods in Queensland, Australia, as well as bush fires on the outskirts of the Western Australia capital Perth.
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A large crack between a row of trees and the riverbank. A fence lining the riverbank has collapsed. The photographer comments, "On the 22 February 2011 we had an earthquake in Christchurch, which ripped us apart literally. This is what happened to the riverbank at New Brighton. Some trees stayed in place and others dropped 2 feet. The amazing thing was that they all stayed upright".
Bronze award presented to Claire Laredo, from Christchurch. Pictured here with Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr, and Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Gerry Brownlee.
A photograph of members of the Dog Section of the New Zealand Police at the site of an earthquake-damaged building in central Christchurch.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house in Christchurch. The house has fallen off its foundations and is on a severe lean.
Bronze award presented to Matthew Prendergast, from Christchurch. Pictured here with Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr, and Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Gerry Brownlee.
Members of the New Zealand Defence Force saluting during the singing of the National Anthem at the Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service in Hagley Park.
A member of the Navy talking to a police officer during an operational tour of Lyttelton to view the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake.
'Cappuccino dreams'. Christchurch mayoral candidates Jim Anderton and incumbent mayor Bob Parker tell constituents that they will get respectively more transparency in 'financial dealings' and in 't-shirts'. As the earthquake strikes they continue their electioneering until they are told to 'clear orf' because 'these frames lack substance'. A front-end loader begins to dismantle the structure from which they are speaking. Refers to the local body elections to take place 9th October and the Canterbury earthquake of 4th September.
Published in the Presto
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Liquefaction and buckled tarmac on a residential street in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "In the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch the kerb at the end of my road was pushed from both ends. This caused it to move away from the grass verge and push itself under the tarmac. The tarmac would normally have been 3 inches below the top of the kerb. Between the kerb and the grass can be seen the colour of the liquefaction that spewed out from the ground. The tarmac in the area seemed to flow downhill".
One official black and yellow coloured uniform, comprising overalls, boots, helmet, goggles, ear protectors and head light, worn by the New Zealand Fire Service Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team in the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake. 'USAR' in yellow letters on the back of the overalls. This uniform was worn by Paul Burns, who w...
A tribute in the form of a pink wire and fabric butterfly attached by wire to a green stick.
Bunch of artificial fabric, plastic and wire pink, purple and white flowers with greenery tied with a red ribbon.
White fabric artificial rose flower head, without stem. Flower head is dirty and stained. Has plastic sepals at base.
White fabric artificial rose flower head, without stem. Has ring of plastic stamens between layers of petals. Plastic sepals.
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Taken 10th Jan well through the controversial demolition of Manchester Courts
Monavale, a publicly owned heritage building and gardens - can't see it surviving this one.
Shot a music video in here 2 weeks ago.
Up to $100,000 worth of antiques lost in this building which is to come down
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A photograph of pieces of broken china laid on a mosaic design.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Marie begins the very first flower. It is so difficult and time consuming that we are all in despair. Will this take forever? No-one is getting paid and we all have jobs and lives in some chaos thanks to the earthquakes."
