Summary of oral history interview with Coralie Winn about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Lynne Smith about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Kirsten Rennie about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Anna Mowat about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Kath Graham about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 29 October 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 November 2012 entitled, "Christchurch: Trying to make sense of living here....".
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 31 October 2012.
Page 15 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 23 June 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 9 November 2012.
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 2 November 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 5 December 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 13 July 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the South Island edition of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 24 July 2012.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 12 December 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 10 February 2012.
Page 16 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 3 March 2012.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch edition of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 1 August 2012.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 1 November 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 7 December 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 14 November 2012.
It all started two years ago today at 4:36 in the morning, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Canterbury.
It was just a little under an hour and a half ago, two years today, that a seven-point-one magnitude earthquake shook Canterbury.
Schools are an important part of any community, and two years on from the start of the earthquakes in Canterbury many are still coping with damage to classrooms, and with dramatically reduced rolls.
A structural engineer has denied he rushed the inspection of earthquake repairs to a Christchurch bar so it could re-open in time for New Years Eve.
The owner of a building that collapsed in last February's Christchurch earthquake - killing four people - has faced questioning about why he did not get recommended strengthening work done.
Two separate chances to inspect the Canterbury Television building were missed before the February earthquake saw it pancake to the ground last year, killing 115 people.
A laminated sign for the 2011 Festival of Flowers attached to a wooden planter. The plants in the planter are dry and dead. The photographer comments, "The theme for the 2011 Festival of Flowers was 'burst! of water'. The Christchurch February earthquake came and water and sand called liquefaction burst out of the ground all around the area. Ironically the plants for the festival were left unattended in the cordoned off red zone and they would have loved a little burst of water".
A sewage pumping station on Avonside Drive has been lifted out of the ground by liquefaction. In the background, the damaged Snell Place footbridge over the Avon River is closed off with cordon fencing. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. Dallington footbridge. The two pieces of this foot bridge have moved towards each other, so the bridge has developed quite a peak. The sewage pumping station has been heaved out of the ground by hydraulic pressure during quakes".
A man whose wife was killed when the CTV building collapsed says the council's inspections after the September quake were in a mess and signage put on some buildings sent the wrong message that they were safe to occupy.