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

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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.

fountain and arts centre

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looking past the peacock fountain to the arts centre - under repair following the earthquake.

one of the many dodgy chimneys

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richmond cracks

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piles of silt / sand

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shovelled out of peoples properties.

cordoned off

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looking south along manchester st.

Cnr Edgeware & Barbadoes St

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Lone Star pre Demolition

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Kaiapoi, earthquake damage

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Damage from the Christchurch 7.1 earthquake on 4th Sept 2010

Pines beach after earthquake

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Sand volcanos cover Rydal Street

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This has made a huge mess for the residents to clean up. I heard on the news that homes have been damaged by subsidence in areas of earthquake-caused liquefaction like this.

Footpath cracks next to Rydal Park.

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Sand volcanoes put the silt all over the road.

Rydal Street sand volcanos

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It would have been a glorious Spring day in Christchurch had it not been for the magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 4:30 am. All the water and silt you can see covering the street in this photo erupted from the ground following the earthquake.

this wasn't here when we left

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Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.

Municipal Chambers

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High Street

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Manchester Street

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Churchill's Tavern

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham.

Colombo Street

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham.

AMI Insurance

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Latimer Square

St Lukes Church

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Corner Kilmore and Manchester. Architect Cyril Mountfort, 1908.

City Municipal Chambers (now "Our City")

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Architect: Samuel Hurst Seager. Queen Anne design. Opened 1887.

Liquefaction mud

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Cheam Street, Avonside

Earthquake damage - bridge

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Aftermath of September 4th Earthquake in Canterbury (area covers Christchurch City) NZ. Damage to bridge on Spencerville Road crossing the Lower Styx river.