Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Knox Church, Cnr Bealey Ave & Victoria St (08.03.2011) City Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleanin...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Shops, Stanmore Rd (08.03.2011) Linwood Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wide-area 7 p...

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

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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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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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Christchurch Cathedral Damage

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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

Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - Bus-ted Bus Depot

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Methodist Church 68 Harewood Road Papanui

Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - What a Dump!

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Light Relief: We are flushed with too many puns about this image! However you know your sewers are in trouble when the liquefaction comes up through the pipes! Taken after the 6.3 magnatude quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011.

Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - Shaky Ride

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Christchurch Earthquake - Beckenham Shops - Ctrl-Alt-Del

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Demolition continues on the old Beckenham shops after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch on the 4th September 2010. So sad to see history die - both buildings and business. Took this image in HDR and processed in PhotoMatix and PaintShop Pro 8. Below are two other images of the shops one soon after the earthquake and the other sever...

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