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Colombo Street

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham is in a bad way. These are all closed; the shop at centre has collapsed.

Colombo Street

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham.

Colombo Street

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham.

Corner of Worcester Street and Latimer Square

probable earthquake damage 1b

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deduced from the fact the breaks appeared new and others damaged around it.

Crowded Cloud

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A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch 4 September 2010. Corner of Colombo and Byron Streets. Given a bit of a HDR process to add some of what I was "feeling" at the time.

OTBC - shoring on RHS

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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.

OTBC damage above side door

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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.

St Pauls Church - other end of building subsided by about 50 cm

The base of the tower on the right of this picture has sunk about 25cm so that the lower course of bricks have disappeared below ground level. Meanwhile the other end of the building has sunk about 50cm splitting the building into thirds. The sand you can see is what came bubbling up out of the ground due to liquifaction. Unfortunately the build...

Sydenham Churchills Tavern - the black canopy under all those bricks is wh…

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Reasons why it pays not to be a smoker - if the quake had hit during opening hours there would have been probably half a dozen smokers underneath the black awning crushed by falling bricks.