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A photograph of emergency management personnel standing outside the Canterbury Trade Union Centre on Armagh Street. Emergency tape has been draped around the outside of the building and USAR codes have been spray-painted on a column near the entrance. Behind the building are several other earthquake-damaged buildings.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Bealey Avenue near Springfield Road. The walls have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front. the ceiling of the building has been braced with scaffolding. Wire fencing and police tape has been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the intersection of High, Lichfield, and Manchester Streets, taken from the corner of High and Lichfield Streets. Emergency management personnel are sitting and standing in front of wire fences which are blocking off the intersection. In the background several excavators are clearing rubble from earthquake-damaged buildings.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of shops on Manchester Street including While you Wait Studios, Aji Global Grocery & Chocolateria, and Peaches and Cream. Sections of the wall above crumbled, the bricks falling to the footpath and destroying the awnings. The rubble has been cleared from the footpath.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the former Canterbury Public Library on the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace. The bricks in the corner of the building have crumbled and masonry can be seen on the footpath below. Wire fences have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to Charlie B's Backpackers on Madras Street. The front of the building has collapsed, the bricks and other rubble spilling onto the road and footpath in front. Many of the walls inside the top storey of the building are now hanging loose from the ceiling.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to Asko Designs on Victoria Street. The brick wall on the right side and part of the front façade have crumbled. Bricks and other rubble have fallen onto the footpath below. Wire fences and police tape have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Bealey Avenue near Springfield Road. The walls have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front. the ceiling of the building has been braced with scaffolding. Wire fencing and police tape has been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Bealey Avenue near Springfield Road. The walls have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front. the ceiling of the building has been braced with scaffolding. A red sticker on the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Girls High School sign". The sign reads, "This site is closed but the school is open. Avonside Girls High School has been temporarily relocated to Burnside High School, 151 Greers Road, Burnside 8053. Please do not enter this site - earthquake-damaged buildings".

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Bealey Avenue near Springfield Road. The walls have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front. The ceiling of the building has been braced with scaffolding. Wire fencing and police tape has been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Registry Building on the corner of Montreal and Worcester Streets. Masonry around the gable has collapsed onto the footpath below. Steel bracing has been used to hold up the remaining masonry. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team and the Red Cross working on High and Manchester Streets. On both sides of the street there are piles of rubble from the earthquake-damaged buildings. Several excavators have been parked in a line along the street.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Registry Building on the corner of Montreal and Worcester Streets. Masonry around the gable has collapsed onto the footpath below. Steel bracing has been used to hold up the remaining masonry. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of a member of the New Zealand Army talking to a police officer on the corner of Colombo and Wordsworth Street. In the background there is a block of earthquake-damaged shops. Sections of the shops' walls have collapsed and the rubble has spilled onto the road and footpath.

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A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. Rubble from the collapsed tower is lying on the ground in front. A car has been crushed under this rubble. Wire fencing, shipping containers, and road cones have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team walking down Lichfield Street towards the intersection of Madras Street. There is rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings on both sides of the road. Plastic fences and road cones have been placed on the street as cordons.

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A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. Rubble from the collapsed tower is lying on the ground in front. A car has been crushed under this rubble. Wire fencing, shipping containers, and road cones have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. Rubble from the collapsed tower is lying on the ground in front. A car has been crushed under this rubble. Wire fencing, shipping containers, and road cones have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Country Theme store on the corner of Manchester and St Asaph Street. Parts of the bricks walls have crumbled. Most of the bricks have been cleared from the footpath. Steel fences and road cones have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to Knox Church on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street. The brick walls of the gables have collapsed, exposing the building's wooden frame and the inside of the building. Wire fences and emergency tape have been placed around the building as a cordon.

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A photograph of an alleyway between Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square. There is a pile of rubble near the end of the alleyway, fallen from the earthquake-damaged Base Backpackers building, behind the former Canterbury Times building on Gloucester Street. Scaffolding has also been constructed up the side of Base Backpackers.

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Damage to the Visitors Centre in Kaiapoi, after the September 4th earthquake. The foundations have lifted at the back of the building, giving it a forward lean. Cables have been attached to the balcony over the walkway and braced to posts cemented into the ground. This is to stop the building from slumping further.

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Damage to the Visitors Centre in Kaiapoi, after the September 4th earthquake. The foundations have lifted at the back of the building, giving it a forward lean. Cables have been attached to the balcony over the walkway and braced to posts cemented into the ground. This is to stop the building from slumping further.

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A sign on a tent set up in the Arts car park at the University of Canterbury after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The tents were used as temporary lecture rooms while the buildings were being checked for damage. The sign reads, "Clyde 4, ANTH 102 in E338 Drawing Room Mon 11Am, 155 Seat".

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of shops on Manchester Street. The closest shop has collapsed and the floor of the upper storey is hanging out of the side of the shop. To the left, the outer walls of the top storeys of the shops have collapsed, the bricks spilling onto the street.

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A photograph of the back of two earthquake-damaged houses on Gloucester Street. The side wall of the house to the right has partially collapsed and the bricks have spilled onto the property to the left. Plastic sheeting has been placed over the roof and the top of the wall to protect against the weather.

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Piko Wholefoods Building on the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Street. Sections of the top storey of the building have collapsed and the bricks and other rubble have spilled onto the footpath below. Steel fences have been placed around the building as a cordon.

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this event, more than 95% of residential housing units were covered by insurance, but insurance payments were staggered over 5 years, enabling us to identify their local impact. We find that night-time luminosity can capture the process of recovery and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more effective than insurance-managed repairs in contributing to local recovery.

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A photograph of staff from the Department of Physics and Astronomy from the University of Canterbury recovering parts of the Townsend Telescope from the rubble of the Observatory tower. The telescope was housed in the tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre. It was severely damaged when the tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.