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St Martins Supermarket

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St Martins Supermarket

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20120128_8071_1D3-400 Redcliffs wall

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The sea wall at Beachville Road, Redcliffs, after the earthquake. It used to be straight and level - not now! As a teenager I went fishing off this wall.

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Police road block on Colombo Street; aftermath of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010. Note the unusually deserted streets on a Tuesday afternoon.

20130320_1044_EOS M-29 lifted house (Day 79/365)

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A red-zone house just a few down the road from where we used to live in Velsheda Street, with bricks (brick veneer?) off and lifted prior to transporting away.

At the top of the cliff, Sumner

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Damaged house on the cliff on the road to Sumner, Christchurch. File reference: CCL-2012-05-12-Around-Sumner-May-2012 DSC_019.JPG From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

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Ground heaving on the faultline from which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.

Opawa Library

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Opawa Library

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20120131_8167_1D3-400 Shag Pile

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What more can one say except that Shag Rock is now about one third it's original height. Whitewash Head in the background with the road that now drops over a cliff.

Water water everywhere! (Day 84/365)

20130325_1112_EOS M-25 Water water everywhere! (Day 84/365) While the whole of the North Island is under drought conditions and parts of the South Island likely to follow suit, I doubt it will happen in Christchurch. With hundreds of earthquake road, water and sewer repairs underway many are spilling hundreds of litres of water per minute, like...

Christchurch Earthquake 015

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Suburbs

Christchurch Earthquake 016

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Suburbs

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The ground literally opened up! On the previously unknown faultline along which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.

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The ground literally opened up! On the previously unknown faultline along which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.

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The ground literally opened up! On the previously unknown faultline along which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.

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The ground literally opened up! On the previously unknown faultline along which the Saturday 4 September 2010 earthquake originated.

New Brighton bridge

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20130808_2296_1D3-40 New Brighton bridge Prior to the earthquakes the stone wall at right was near road level. Now it is about 1.5m (4-5ft) lower. #4075