Members of the New Zealand Defence Force saluting during the singing of the National Anthem at the Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service in Hagley Park.
Aerial image of Cathedral Square taken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the Earthquake Commission. The damaged Press Building can be seen.
Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have repeatedly been shown to perform poorly in large magnitude earthquakes, with both New Zealand and Australia having a history of past earthquakes that have resulted in fatalities due to collapsed URM buildings. A comparison is presented here of the URM building stock and the seismic vulnerability of Christchurch and Adelaide in order to demonstrate the relevance to Australian cities of observations in Christchurch resulting from the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake swarm. It is shown that the materials, architecture and hence earthquake strength of URM buildings in both countries is comparable and that Adelaide and other cities of Australia have seismic vulnerability sufficient to cause major damage to their URM buildings should a design level earthquake occur. Such an earthquake is expected to cause major building damage, and fatalities should be expected.
Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel preparing a Hercules C-130 to evacuate rest home residents affected by the Canterbury Earthquake.
Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel preparing a Hercules C-130 to evacuate rest home residents affected by the Canterbury Earthquake.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Rhodes Memorial Home on Dyers Pass Road.
Barry Corbett, a Christchurch City Councillor is at the Christchurch Art Gallery which is being set up as a Civil Defence Centre.
Peter Townsend is the Chief Executive of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. He's at Wellington Airport trying to get back to Christchurch.
Finance Minister Bill English, and the Civil Defence Minister John Carter have a news conference at the Beehive theatrette.
Jim Palmer says there is significant damage, but it is not as bad as the September 4 earthquake last year.
Kelvin Scott is a blind musician who usually plays in the square. He chose not to go today because it was raining.
David Neal is the Red Cross National Operations Manager and is making his way to Christchurch to coordinate efforts with his staff.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to 128 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to 128 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the back of the Ferry Antique Centre on Ferry Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the back of the Ferry Antique Centre on Ferry Road.
A photograph of a piece of fallen masonry from the earthquake-damaged building at 158 Gloucester Street.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 25 February 2011 showing a New Zealand Army Light Operational Vehicle on the corner of Norwich Quay and Dublin Street. Light Armoured Vehicles and Light Operational Vehicles were a common sight around Lyttelton and Christchurch after the February 2011 earthquakes. The quakes occurred just before ...
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Press reporter Olivia Carville helps an injured woman in Cashel Street".
Police have confirmed the death toll from the Christchurch earthquake has risen.
Public and electoral law professor at Otago University, Andrew Geddis.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the masonry around a window of the Cranmer Centre.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the masonry above a window of the Cranmer Centre.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a detail of St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.