Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace in the Avon Loop area showing the lateral spread on the river banks".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Riverview Lodge at 361 Cambridge Terrace, showing damage to the river bank".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Barbadoes Street cemetery showing fissures in the bank".
A photograph of a large crack in the river bank. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Brighton Road".
The badly twisted Medway Street footbridge. The photographer comments, "The September 4th 2010 earthquake in Christchurch was so violent that the banks of the Avon River moved towards each other. This footbridge being metal had to twist sideways to release the pressure of being pushed from both river banks. It looked like it had been wrung out like a wet towel".
Long grass on the cordon side of the river beside the Worcester Boulevade bridge contrasts with the mown lawn on the publicly accessible opposite bank.
A digitally manipulated photograph of the badly twisted Medway Street footbridge. The photographer comments, "This bridge over the Avon River in Christchurch, New Zealand has been left in place since the first major earthquake back in September 2010. Graffiti artists or taggers are still leaving their marks on it even though it is nearly twisted at 90 degrees at one point".
With the land dropping about 1metre to 1.4metres after the earthquakes, a few roads besides the Avon and Heathcote Rivers are flooded with very high tides. Extra stop banks (on right) erected after the quakes have helped, but the road is now well below high water level.
New Brighton Road, just short of New Brighton. The Pages Road bridge may b...
