A photograph of the interior of the car park of the Hotel Grand Chancellor. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The reinforced column (right) and slumped car park floor".
Volunteers using a crane to lay down slabs of concrete on the site of the demolished Crowne Plaza hotel. These slabs will serve as the floor of the Pallet Pavilion.
A girl walks across the Gap Filler "Dance-o-mat" dance floor in Re:Start mall. The photographer comments, "She was dancing, but when she saw my camera she got shy and ran back to her friends".
Staff meet in temporary office space set up in the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "University of Canterbury administration all fits into one building! Well, sort of. Two meeting spaces in the middle of the floor".
A photograph of the Canterbury Cultural Recovery Centre's main floor, taken in August 2013. There are St John's uniforms hanging from a clothes rack at the end of one of the stacks.
A photograph of the Canterbury Cultural Recovery Centre's main floor. A notice board displays information for Lyttelton Museum staff. There are St John's uniforms hanging from a clothes rack in the foreground.
A photograph of material from the Lyttelton Museum's collection being stored on the Canterbury Cultural Recovery Centre's main floor. The collection includes framed pictures and maps, and Navy memorabilia.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Natalie Thomas' Birchfield Ave home looks unaffected by the earthquake but uneven floors, doors and cracks in the surrounding earth tell another tale".
A photograph of a member of the Diabetes Centre team working in an office in the Diabetes Centre on Hagley Avenue. Bits of broken wood are lying on the floor in front of the desk.
A photograph of a room in the Diabetes Centre. Several filing cabinets have opened and files have fallen off the bookcases on the left and right, spilling onto the floor and furniture.
A photograph of the interior of the car park of the Hotel Grand Chancellor. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The reinforced column (right) and slumped car park floor".
The ground floor of the BNZ Building, seen from High Street. The glass has been removed and the insides gutted. The Cathedral can be viewed through the other side.
A photograph of mosaics of flowers laid on the floor of a garage.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The flower motifs on mesh and cardboard backings."
This building on Lichfield Street lost the top floor of its facade during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team in the kitchen of an earthquake-damaged house. Broken crockery litters the floor.
A three dimensional approximately half scale experimental subassemblage is currently being tested at the University of Canterbury to investigate the effect of precast-prestressed floor units, which do not span past the internal columns, on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete moment resisting frames. This paper reports the preliminary results from the test, with the focus on elongation within the plastic hinges and strength enhancement in the frames. The preliminary results have shown that elongation between the external and internal plastic hinges varies by more than two fold. With the addition of the prestressed floor units, the strength of the moment resisting frame used in the test was found to be 25% higher than the current code specified value. In other situations, particularly where there are more than 2 bays in a moment resisting frame, greater strength enhancement may be expected. Any underestimation of beam strength is undesirable as it may result in the development of nonductile failure modes in a major earthquake.
A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office entering the foyer of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Debris from above is scattered over the floor around them.
A photograph of a cabinet which has toppled on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The ground and furniture is also covered in plaster from above.
A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office entering the foyer of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Debris from above is scattered over the floor around them.
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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Judie Owers at her house on Courtney Street. During the Christchurch earthquake Judie was standing in the doorway with her husband when the floor gave way".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftershock damage at the Cathedral Square site of The Press caused by the Boxing Day quakes. Damage to the main stairwell between floors two and three".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Gareth Turnball inspects the condemned Coastal Spirit Soccer Club. The walls have separated from the floor which has humped substantially from the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftershock damage at the Cathedral Square site of The Press caused by the Boxing Day quakes. Damage to the main stairwell on the third floor".
A view of the interior of the Durham Street Methodist Church hall. The floor has been coated with plaster from the walls and ceiling, and items of furniture have been stacked up around the walls.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Ground floor, IRD building. This book market is almost undisturbed while next door, the CTV building collapsed. Taken through the Cashel Street window".
A photograph of rubble outside Mod's Hair on Victoria Street. Earthquake damage can also be seen inside the building with bricks on the floor and hair products fallen off the shelves.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Gareth Turnball inspects the condemned Coastal Spirit Soccer Club. The walls have separated from the floor which has humped substantially from the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Gareth Turnball inspects the condemned Coastal Spirit Soccer Club. The walls have separated from the floor which has humped substantially from the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Gareth Turnball inspects the condemned Coastal Spirit Soccer Club. The walls have separated from the floor which has humped substantially from the quake".