Photograph by Eroica Ritchie 040
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A long-exposure photograph of a person stepping across a large crack in a pathway.
A long-exposure photograph of a person stepping across a large crack in a pathway.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Police search a building on the corner of St Asaph Street and Barbadoes Street, after reports of a person in the wreckage following Canterbury's earthquake".
The stump of an oak tree in the Halswell Primary School grounds. The oak tree had the be cut down after it broke during the earthquake and was hanging at a angle. The person who cut down the tree has carved "1870 - 16:9:2010" into the stump, the year that the tree was planted, and then the day that it broke and fell.