Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:53:39

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:45:59

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:46:03

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:55:33

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:56:45

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:55:25

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:55:15

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:50:32

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:49:02

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 14:04:13

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Multi-story building collapsed in Cambridge Terrace where 36 are still trapped".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor 2010:12:14 00:43:44

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi businesses and retail outlets struggling post-earthquake, leading into Christmas. Kaiapoi High Street. Blackwells department store is the earthquake-damaged building".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:11:23 13:10:34

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Australian heritage architects Edward Clode and Barney Collis survey the earthquake damage to the Cranmer Courts, which have been converted into apartments".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:54:08

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor 2010:12:14 00:48:31

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi businesses and retail outlets struggling post-earthquake, leading into Christmas. Kaiapoi High Street. Blackwells department store is the earthquake-damaged building".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:10 17:21:44

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch where the cleanup has begun. Historic buildings around Christchurch received varying degrees of damage. Christchurch Cathedral".

Timaru Herald Image: John Bisset 2010:09:04 06:53:54

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The early morning earthquake caused damage to the Royal Hotel at Temuka. Pictured is the new owner of the Royal Maz Opele".

Timaru Herald Image: John Bisset 2010:09:04 06:54:53

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The early morning earthquake caused damage to the Royal Hotel at Temuka. Pictured is the new owner of the Royal Maz Opele".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:47:55

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

New Brighton Road

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Damage to New Brighton Road. The photographer comments, "Would you believe that the up and down dirt track on the right is actually a main road?".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:46:06

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 12:48:58

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Sue Spigel, Christchurch Cathedral artist-in-residence, trapped in the Christchurch Cathedral".

Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:09:12 05:33:05

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Maarten Schaap with his campervan which he and his family live in after their house was damaged in the quake, he lives at the end of the fault line where all the aftershocks are located".

Modern Art or Old Fashioned Disaster

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Boarded-up broken windows on the old Christchurch City Council building in Tuam Street. The photographer comments, "What can happen to a building when the land is no longer solid as a rock".

Titanic 3D

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The roof of this collapsed building on Atlas Lane has fallen almost intact on top of the rubble. The photographer comments, "Whenever I go past this place it reminds me of a sinking ship".

Earthquake Tetris

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Broken windows on Leicester House. Broken filing cabinets and other fittings lie on the ground in front of the building. The photographer comments, "As you can see the game did not last very long".

Seismic engineer on the quake's effect on buildings

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A seismic engineer says many of the Christchurch buildings destroyed in Tuesday's quake weren't designed to cope with such intense forces - and it's possible damage from the September 4th earthquake went undetected.

Heritage Buildings, Earthquake Strengthening and Damage: the Canterbury ea…

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"Heritage Buildings, Earthquake Strengthening and Damage: the Canterbury earthquakes September 2010 - January 2012", a report submitted by the then New Zealand Historic Places Trust to the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. The report was written by Robert McClean.

Appendix Two - Damage to Significant Buildings in Central Christchurch (as…

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Appendix Two to the submission of the then New Zealand Historical Places Trust to the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. The appendix is titled, "Damage to Significant Buildings in Central Christchurch (as at 13 October 2011)".

Living on the Edge

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A damaged house perched on the edge of the cliffs above Sumner. The photographer comments, "This house has slowly gone over the edge since the big earthquake in Christchurch in February 2011. Subsequent earthquakes has caused the rock face to crumble more and more".

Diving No Longer Allowed

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A digitally manipulated image of the high diving boards at QEII swimming pool. Rubble has fallen on the boards during the demolition of the complex. The photographer comments, "The diving board at the QEII stadium swimming pool during its demolition after being damaged in the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011".