Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage after the September 4th earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage after the September 4th earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage after the September 4th earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage after the September 4th earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Deans' Homestead at Homebush after Saturday's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Deans' Homestead at Homebush after Saturday's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Deans' Homestead at Homebush after Saturday's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Deans' Homestead at Homebush after Saturday's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Windows in Lyttelton damaged after the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake".
Earthquake events can be sudden, stressful, unpredictable, and uncontrollable events in which an individual’s internal and external assumptions of their environment may be disrupted. A number of studies have found depression, and other psychological symptoms may be common after natural disasters. They have also found an association between depression, losses and disruptions for survivors. The present study compared depression symptoms in two demographically matched communities differentially affected by the Canterbury (New Zealand) earthquakes. Hypotheses were informed by the theory of learned helplessness (Abramson, Seligman & Teasdale, 1978). A door-to-door survey was conducted in a more physically affected community sample (N=67) and a relatively unaffected community sample (N=67), 4 months after the February 2011 earthquake. Participants were again assessed approximately 10 months after the quake. Measures of depression, acute stress, anxiety, aftershock anxiety, losses, physical disruptions and psychological disruptions were taken. In addition, prior psychological symptoms, medication, alcohol and cigarette use were assessed. Participants in the more affected community reported higher depression scores than the less affected community. Overall, elevated depressive score at time 2 were predicted by depression at time 1, acute stress and anxiety symptoms at time 2, physical disruptions following the quake and psychosocial functioning disruptions at time 2. These results suggest the influence of acute stress, anxiety and disruptions in predicting depression sometime after an earthquake. Supportive interventions directed towards depression, and other psychological symptoms, may prove helpful in psychological adjustment following ongoing disruptive stressors and uncontrollable seismic activity.
More than four years after the February 2011 earthquake devastated Christchurch's city centre, the rebuild in and around the iconic Cathedral Square has stalled.
A painting and the Univeristy of Canterbury Mace, are loaded into a car after being rescued from the Registry Building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "St Pauls Church Dallington after the September earthquake".
A graphic for an opinion piece on the two minutes' silence observed one week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
New research suggests about half the Christchurch businesses which left the central city after the Canterbury earthquakes are unlikely to return.
Christchurch airport's annual profit has fallen 6 per cent after losing nearly half a million passengers following the earthquakes.
A support group is being credited for helping Cantabrians settle in Nelson after escaping the earthquakes.
An earthquake aftershock measuring five-point-one on the Richter Scale hit Christchurch this morning, just after six o'clock.