A photograph of USAR codes spray-painted on the front door of the Kosco Asian Supermarket on Gloucester Street. Broken glass has scattered across the footpath in front.
A photograph of the Brannigans Building on the corner of Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace. Many of the windows of the central tower have broken, the glass littering the footpath below. Emergency tape has been draped around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of emergency management personnel taking photographs of a dip in the floor of Grenadier House on Madras Street. The front windows have smashed, the glass scattering over the foyer and footpath outside. The wall next to the elevator is buckled.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Charlie B's Backpackers on Madras Street. The front of the building has collapsed, the bricks and other rubble spilling onto the road and footpath in front. Many of the walls inside the top storey of the building are now hanging loose from the ceiling.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Building on Durham Street. Large sections of the masonry have collapsed, spilling onto the road. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon. Scaffolding erected up the side has collapsed.
A photograph of USAR codes spray-painted on Grenadier House on Madras Street. A red sticker taped to the glass above indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Building on Durham Street. Large sections of the masonry have collapsed, spilling onto the road. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon. Scaffolding erected up the side has collapsed.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on the corner of Hereford and Madras Streets. Sections of the walls have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath below. The frame of a window has fallen onto the scaffolding, and many of the glass windows have smashed.
A photograph of the CTV building site, shot from Hereford Street near St John's Church. Several excavators and emergency management personnel are working through the rubble on the site.
A photograph of emergency management personnel in the foyer of the Christchurch Art Gallery. A cherry picker has been placed inside the building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Avonmore House on Hereford Street. Sections of the walls have crumbled, spilling bricks and masonry onto the footpath and street below. Many of the windows have warped, breaking the glass. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the columns.
A photograph of a member of an emergency management team in front of a earthquake-damaged building next to Calendar Girls on Hereford Street. The outer wall of the second storey of the building has collapsed, the bricks spilling onto the footpath below. USAR codes have been spray-painted on a window and a column of the building. Codes have also been spray-painted on the front of Calendar Girls.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Kenton Chambers on Hereford Street. Large cracks have formed between the windows, the brick crumbling onto the footpath below. Steel fences have been placed around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of emergency tape cordoning off Hereford Street near the end of the Christchurch City Council building. Tape has also been draped around St Elmo Courts as a cordon.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Armagh Street. The outer walls of the building have collapsed, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to St Elmo Courts on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets. There are large cracks in the building's façade. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the windows. Police tape has been draped around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of cracks in the back of St Elmo Courts. The cracks have formed between the windows both horizontally and vertically. Scaffolding has been constructed on the side nearest the street.
A photograph of the collapsed PGC Building shot from Oxford Terrace, across the river. In the foreground is the Edmonds Band Rotunda.
A photograph of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets. A red sticker on the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
A photograph of the collapsed PGC Building on Cambridge Terrace. Emergency management personnel are hanging above the building in a crane-raised platform. An excavator is sitting on the rubble and a tent has been pitched in the foreground.
A photograph of the entrance of the Crowne Plaza Hotel taken from inside the hotel. The front windows have smashed, the glass scattering across the courtyard and foyer. Sections of the ceiling have collapsed, the panels fallen onto the floor in front of the rotating doors.
A photograph of a cabinet which has toppled on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The ground and furniture is also covered in plaster from above.
A photograph of a seating area on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Dust and other debris is scattered across the carpet. A plate has fallen off the table and broken on the floor.
A photograph of a large crack in between two windows of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Montreal and Hereford Street.
A photograph of emergency management personnel inspecting the earthquake damage to a concrete beam inside a building. The concrete near the bottom of the beam has crumbled and the steel reinforcement inside is now exposed.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the Cranmer Centre on the corner of Armagh and Montreal Streets. Large sections of the wall have collapsed, the bricks spilling onto the footpath below. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon. Scaffolding has been erected up the side of the building to the left.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the Cranmer Courts on the corner of Kilmore and Montreal Streets. Masonry and other rubble is sitting on the footpath in front. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Some of the windows have broken, and the curtains are blowing in the breeze. Emergency tape has been draped over the handrails and the traffic lights.
A photograph of several broken windows in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A lamp is hanging out of the bottom window.
A photograph looking into the basement of the Copthorne Hotel. Rolls of carpet and chairs are sitting in a pool of water.