An aerial view of the Port Hills a week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A Royal New Zealand Navy work party boarding up the broken window of a store in Lyttelton.
A soldier giving information to the police after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
An aerial view of Lyttelton. An Army truck can be seen on the streets of Lyttelton.
An aerial view of Lyttelton. An Army truck can be seen on the streets of Lyttelton.
Soldiers from the New Zealand Army and Singapore Armed Forces guarding a cordon in the central city.
A member of No. 3 Squadron in the Iroquois helicopter making tours of Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A police officer distributes supplies to members of the emergency services in Latimer Square.
Emergency management personnel outside the Christchurch Art Gallery. The Art Gallery was used as the headquarters for Civil Defence after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
NZ Army medics being briefed outside the PGC Building in Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A banner reading, "Rise Up Christchurch", flying above the Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service in Hagley Park.
Mayor Bob Parker and members of Civil Defence at their temporary headquarters in the Christchurch Art Gallery after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A work party from the Royal New Zealand Navy on the back of a truck in Lyttelton.
Soldiers from the New Zealand Army and Singapore Armed Forces guarding a cordon in the central city.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue Team clearing rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
A member of No. 3 Squadron in the Iroquois helicopter making tours of Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
An aerial view of the Port Hills a week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A member of the South Australian Urban Search and Rescue team working in Christchurch central city.
Christchurch city councillor Barry Corbett is at Civil Defence headquarters.
James Thompson is the Operations Manager for Civil Defence Christchurch.
A photograph of a military armoured vehicle parked on the site of a demolished building. The vehicle has been used to support advertising signs for a relocated business.
A video of a conversation between John Hamilton, National Controller of the Civil Defence Emergency Response, and Dr Sonia Giovinazzi, Research Fellow at the Department of Civil and Natural Resource Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Hamilton and Giovinazzi discuss the Civil Defence's response to the 22 February 2011 earthquake and the lessons that they learned.The video includes footage from the Ministry of Civil Defence (licenced under Creative Commons Attribute 3.0 New Zealand).
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams clearing rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
A member of the New Zealand Army discussing a map of the Christchurch red zone with a New Zealand Police Officer.
A member of the New Zealand Army discussing a map of the Christchurch red zone with a New Zealand Police Officer.
A digger at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams digging through rubble at the CTV site.
The US Aid tent in Latimer Square. After the 22 February 2011 earthquake, emergency service agencies set up their headquarters in Latimer Square.
Members of the South Australian Urban Search and Rescue team digging through rubble in the central city.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.