A photograph of cracks in the ground and damaged fencing near Highfield Road in Darfield.
A photograph of a large crack in the garden of a house on Avonside Drive.
Liquefaction in a horse paddock. In the foreground cracks are visible in the road surface.
Prime Minister John Key stands grinning on a cracked pedestal bearing the words 'Most popular P.M.' In the background is the Beehive flying a skull and crossbones flag. The landscape is a desert with cactus and dried bones and a vulture in a bare tree. A man and a woman comment that it looks as though the quake may have done damage in Wellington after all, that and the crash of the SCF fund. Refers to two major events in the Canterbury area in recent times that have incurred huge government costs; these are the collapse of the South Canterbury Finance Company and the earthquake that struck early Saturday morning 4th September. The South Canterbury Finance Company has been taken into receivership by the government which has guaranteed that all 30,000 fortunate high-risk investors will be paid out $1.6b thanks to the taxpayer. Treasury is assuming that the cost of the earthquake will reach $4 billion, including $2 billion worth of estimated damage to private dwellings and their contents, $1 billion of damage to commercial property, and $1 billion worth of damage to public infrastructure.
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A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Sections of the ceiling and plaster dust have fallen onto the ground and there is a large crack in the wall to the right.
Here's Prarie, outside our flat, the day after the 7.1 earthquake hit Christchurch. You see the damage to the street, which continued through our flat. We were forced to move out once an engineer examined the cracks in our balcony, walls, floors, and ceilings, and told us the building was unsafe for living. One crack ran from the street, pres...
The St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston was cordoned off due to damage suffered during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston was cordoned off due to damage suffered during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The farmer swore that his fence was erected in a straingt line, but mother nature had other ideas!
Aftermath of the Saturday 4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake at the previously unknown faultline along which the quake originated.
The farmer swore that his hedge was planted in a straingt line, but mother nature had other ideas!
Aftermath of the Saturday 4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake at the previously unknown faultline along which the quake originated.
The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010 broke the tip of the spire of the St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston
The farmer swore that his fence was erected in a straingt line, but mother nature had other ideas!
Aftermath of the Saturday 4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake at the previously unknown faultline along which the quake originated.
A photograph of cracks in the ground and damaged fencing next to Highfield Road in Darfield.
A photograph of major cracks in the ground at a farm near Telegraph Road in Darfield.
A photograph of major cracks in the ground at a farm near Telegraph Road in Darfield.
A photograph of major cracks in the ground and damaged fencing near Highfield Road in Darfield.
A photograph of major cracks in the ground at a farm near Telegraph Road in Darfield.
A photograph of cracks in the ground and a damaged fence beside Highfield Road in Darfield.
A photograph of uplifted paving stones along New Regent Street. Weeds are growing between the cracks.
A photograph of cracks in the ground of a paddock next to Highfield Road in Darfield.
A member of the Royal New Zealand Navy in a crack caused by the Canterbury Earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A rubber-necker checks out some cracks on Williams Street in Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Road cracks".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Port Hills Road factories, post drill and glue of cracks".
A large crack in the wall of a brick building. Fallen bricks litter the ground below.
A photograph of a large crack across the lawn of a residential property on Avonside Drive.
People examine large cracks running alongside Bridge Street where the land has slumped towards the river.
A large crack running through the surface of Bridge Street on the approach to the bridge.
A crack in the centre of a street in Avonside after the September 4th earthquake.
Large cracks under a sculpture and seating area in Kaiapoi, after the September 4th earthquake.
