Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Colombo Street.
A crushed car outside the Stand Gourmet Takeout and Cafe on Norwich Quay in Lyttelton. The front wall of the top storey crumbled during the earthquake and landed on top of the car. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of a car on Gloucester Street which has been crushed by falling bricks from the Canterbury Times and Star building. There is a pile of bricks on the front of the car.
Diggers and rubble from the Smiths City car parking building on Dundas Street.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Colombo Street.
Diggers and rubble from the Smiths City car parking building on Dundas Street.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Moorhouse Avenue.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Moorhouse Avenue.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Moorhouse Avenue.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Colombo Street.
Diggers and rubble from the Smiths City car parking building on Dundas Street.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Moorhouse Avenue.
Rubble from partially demolished Smiths City car parking building, seen from Moorhouse Avenue.
A car damaged by falling bricks, evident by the pile of bricks still on top of the car.
A photograph an Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team standing next to car inside a building in the Christchurch city centre. The car is a 1968 Plymouth Road Runner Super Bee.
A photograph of a member of the New Zealand Police using a search dog to examine the rubble of the Caledonian Hall on Kilmore Street. There are two crushed cars amongst the rubble.
A pile of crushed cars near the site of the CTV Building.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 August 2011 entitled, "Car-free Commuting".
Colour photograph showing the damaged shop front of Apex Car Rentals, with broken windows and fallen bricks.
A photograph of a car stuck in liquefaction on Montreal Street.
Men lifting a car onto the back of a truck outside the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
A photograph of cars on the McCormacks Bay causeway.
A car on Rowses Road has its entire front half embedded in liquefaction after falling into a sink hole. Another car has its wheels stuck in the silt. In the foreground, a car drives through flooding which covers the road. The photographer comments, "Perhaps the most impressively stuck car was this small silver hatchback that went head first into a large hole in a street just off Shortland Street (between Shortland and Breezes Road) in Aranui. The rear hatch was open when we came across it. Apparently there had been one person and a dog inside but they managed to escape. The silt has now settled around and inside the car, making the vehicle an intimidating monument to the earthquake".
A car on Rowses Road has its entire front half embedded in liquefaction after falling into a sink hole. Behind it, another car has its wheels stuck in the silt, and in the background a car drives through flooding. The photographer comments, "Perhaps the most impressively stuck car was this small silver hatchback that went head first into a large hole in a street just off Shortland Street (between Shortland and Breezes Road) in Aranui. The rear hatch was open when we came across it. Apparently there had been one person and a dog inside but they managed to escape. The silt has now settled around and inside the car, making the vehicle an intimidating monument to the earthquake".
Cars crushed between the collapsed levels of the Smiths City car park. The photographer comments, "Just after the aftershock settled on Tuesday afternoon, myself and colleagues fled our Tuam Street office to absolute devastation outside. We couldn't see more than a block in either direction due to the clouds of dust that had arisen from buildings that had just collapsed ... From here, we picked up our vehicles from the CCC car park and headed out to get out of the chaos to a position where we could check on loved ones ... eventually made it to Colombo Street where we slowly crawled past the horrific sight of the Colombo Street Smiths City over-bridge car park. Layers had collapsed onto each other and cars were sticking out of the gaps. Hopefully if anyone was inside they would have hit the ground and would be safe under the support of the cars either side of them".
Cars crushed between the collapsed levels of the Smiths City car park. The photographer comments, "Just after the aftershock settled on Tuesday afternoon, myself and colleagues fled our Tuam Street office to absolute devastation outside. We couldn't see more than a block in either direction due to the clouds of dust that had arisen from buildings that had just collapsed ... From here, we picked up our vehicles from the CCC car park and headed out to get out of the chaos to a position where we could check on loved ones ... eventually made it to Colombo Street where we slowly crawled past the horrific sight of the Colombo Street Smiths City over-bridge car park. Layers had collapsed onto each other and cars were sticking out of the gaps. Hopefully if anyone was inside they would have hit the ground and would be safe under the support of the cars either side of them".
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble of the demolished Smiths City car park building on Moorhouse Avenue.
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble of the demolished Smiths City car park building on Moorhouse Avenue.
Diggers and rubble from the Smiths City car parking building on Dundas Street, seen through security fencing.
A photograph of a damaged building on Norwich Quay. The building's frontage has collapsed, crushing a car parked beneath it.