Christchurch Earthquake 22/02/11

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Toppled statue of polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, Worcester Street near Oxford Terrace.

Madonna in Quake Damaged Basilica

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

This statue of the Virgin Mary stood in the south tower of The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and had been facing inside from when she was placed there and through the September 2010 earthquake. That changed on February 22 2010 at 12.51pm when Christchurch was rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. During the violent shaking motion Mary was t...