A photograph of crushed cars outside 199 Madras Street. A Santa mannequin has been placed next to the gutter.
A photograph of crushed cars outside 199 Madras Street. A Santa mannequin has been placed next to the gutter.
A block of shops that have been cordoned off on Colombo Street. Seen from South City Mall car park.
A photograph of crushed cars outside 199 Madras Street. A Santa mannequin has been placed next to the gutter.
The courtyard inside the Peterborough Apartments. The ground has subsided under a section of the lawn, causing it to drop.
A painting and the Univeristy of Canterbury Mace, are loaded into a car after being rescued from the Registry Building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Struthers Lane - Sol Square".
A police car drives down a liquefaction-covered Geraldine Street in St Albans, past residents with shovels and wheelbarrows clearing silt.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch city central. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Provincial Council Chambers in the middle, with Brannigans on the lower left, the Central Library lower middle and the Farmers car park on the lower right".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. The tower on the right has crumbled and the masonry has fallen to the pavement below. A car has been crushed by the fallen rubble. The dome of the left tower has collapsed and the cross at the top of the building is on a lean.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Iconic bar on the corner of Manchester and Gloucester Streets. Large sections of the outer walls have collapsed, the bricks and masonry spilling onto the footpath below, crushing several cars. USAR codes have been spray-painted near the door and a red sticker has been taped above. The red sticker indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
A tram car moving down New Regent Street. Behind it, scaffolding has been constructed on the facades of several buildings.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor car park with steel casing to stabilise a collapsed column".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor car park with steel casing to stabilise a collapsed column".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor car park with steel casing to stabilise a collapsed column".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Liquefaction almost one metre deep in the car park at 1070 Ferry Road, Christchurch".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Warning on the car park of St Josephs Catholic Church, Winchester Street, Lyttelton".
A Christchurch resident loading shovels and a wheelbarrow into the boot of her car after using them to clear liquefaction.
Car headlights flare behind the statue of William Rolleston on Rolleston Avenue. The Bridge of Remembrance is visible in the distance.
A long line of cars on Shirley Road. While the centre of the road is clear, there is flooding and liquefaction along the edges.
A video of an attempt to demolish a damaged garden wall by pulling it down with a tow-rope attached to a car.
Christchurch residents loading furniture into a trailer and the boot of a car. Liquefaction has been piled up outside their house.
Plants growing through a pile of bricks in the car park of the SRS Ayurveda Clinic on Ferry Road in Woolston.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Typical damage caused to the Peterborough Apartments when the underground car park rose 40 cm".
Detail of damage to the Hotel Grand Chancellor, showing how the building has crushed against the car park structure beside it.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Two giant nibblers demolishing the last of the Hotel Grand Chancellor car park, Cashel Street".
A digger demolishing the former Ozone Hotel in New Brighton. The photographer comments, "The bulldozers are starting circling the Ozone in New Brighton, Christchurch. Taking bits of flesh from the mortally wounded building".
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackerman and Danica Nel standing next to trailer on the site of a demolished building on Tuam Street. The duo can be seen wearing hard hats and florescent vests. The photograph was taken during the Residential Access Project which gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The north-west and south-west corners have crumbled, landing on a vehicle.
Damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The north-west and south-west corners have crumbled, landing on a vehicle.