The front page graphic for an earthquake edition of The Press. The main headline reads, "I felt scared but I feel better now...".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Georgina Webster was too scared to enter the relief shelter at Addington Raceway so she slept in her car".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. Some residents are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Tamatea Briggs (12) is staying in a tent with his family on a neighbours lawn too scared to go back into their house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Tamatea Briggs (12) is staying in a tent with his family on a neighbours lawn too scared to go back into their house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Tamatea Briggs (12) is staying in a tent with his family on a neighbours lawn too scared to go back into their house".
Graffiti of an angel clutching a bottle, accompanied by the text "Chritchurch (sic) living make a good man drink." The photographer comments, "Living in Christchurch during the earthquakes was hard on all of us. Some people got drunk to forget or blot out the aftershocks, whilst others dare not drink so that they would be in full control just in case another big earthquake/aftershock occurred. As of today 24 September 2011 there has been 8660 earthquakes/aftershocks in the Christchurch area".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. Charlie Tarawa is staying in a tent with his family on a neighbours lawn as they are too scared to go back into their house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. Charlie Tarawa is staying in a tent with his family on a neighbours lawn as they are too scared to go back into their house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. Paula Grant and Walton Briggs outside their make shift shelter. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Three men chat in a pub. One of them reads a newspaper article about the Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, who commented that he was scared of earthquakes when in Wellington. All three drinkers would rather be in Wellington than trapped beside Bob Parker at a dinner table. Context: Christchurch's Mayor has told the Emergency Management Conference he's scared to be in Wellington. He gave graphic descriptions of the Christchurch earthquakes, getting people to bang on the tables for 45 seconds so they could see what it felt like. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Taking refuge at Linwood college, the McLeod family are too scared to go back to their house. From left: Aaron McLeod, Lorraine McLeod and Grant McLeod".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Taking refuge at Linwood College, the McLeod family are too scared to go back to their house. From left: Lorraine McLeod, Aaron McLeod (11) and Grant McLeod".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa outside near their make shift shelter as they have become too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Taking refuge at Linwood college, the McLeod family are too scared to go back to their house. From left: Lorraine McLeod, Grant McLeod and Aaron McLeod (11)".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Taking refuge at Linwood college, the McLeod family are too scared to go back to their house. From left: Lorraine McLeod, Grant McLeod and Aaron McLeod (11)".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Taking refuge at Linwood college, the McLeod family are too scared to go back to their house. From left: Lorraine McLeod, Aaron McLeod (11) and Grant McLeod".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, Tamatea Briggs (12) and Ngarita Briggs (8) outside their make shift shelter. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Oxford Street residents were too scared to go back inside after the early morning earthquake. Pictured from left, Bia Boucinhas, Robert Collister, Mark Buckland, Hana Meads, Daniel Andrews, Simon and Sarah John-McHaffie and Carol McHaffie".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, Tamatea Briggs (12) sit under a make shift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, and Ngarita Briggs (8) sit under a make-shift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Tamatea Briggs (12) and Charlie Tarawa under a makeshift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, and Ngarita Briggs (8) sit under a make shift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, and Ngarita Briggs (8) sit under a make shift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Charlie Tarawa, Tamatea Briggs (12) and Ngarita Briggs (8) sit under a make-shift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Maling Street in Avonside. From left: Ngarita Briggs (8), Walton Briggs and Paula Grant sit under a makeshift shelter while they wait for a wood fire to boil water. They are too scared to go in the house so are sleeping on the lawn".