A demolition vehicle drilling a hole in the side of a building on Victoria Street.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 May 2012 entitled, "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell".
A car stuck in a large pothole on River Road. The wheels on the right hand side of the car have fallen into the hole, leaving the car grounded against the road surface. The photographer comments, "This car belonged to a postal delivery worker - the NZ Post bike rack is mounted on the towbar. The owner must have biked home. Later a tow truck arrived to extract the car from the hole that had opened under its front wheel".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sink hole in Kilmore Street just outside the Convention Centre".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A hole where the rose window was on the Christ Church Cathedral".
Lego bricks on the corner of the Coffee Zone kiosk. A hole has been left for a cable to pass through.
A photograph submitted by Philip Broderick Willis to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "A truck being swallowed into a sink hole in Linwood.".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An imaginative way to indicate a sink hole on Bower Avenue in New Brighton".
A house on Galbraith Avenue in Avonside. Its chimney has collapsed and the resultant hole has been weather proofed with a blue tarpaulin.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A digger working up high on the Gallery Apartments, drilling holes in the concrete slabs".
A collapsed wall above the windows of a brick house on Centaurus Road. Bricks have fallen into the building and left a hole.
Liquefaction on Gayhurst Road. The footpath has slumped, and a road cone has been placed in the hole. Behind, a low brick fence has cracked.
A cliff above Redcliffs showing signs of recent collapse. A hole in the cliff indicates where a huge boulder dislodged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A cliff above Redcliffs showing signs of recent collapse. A hole in the cliff indicates where a huge boulder dislodged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A bicycle stand which has slumped into a liquefaction hole on the east side of the Armagh Street bridge".
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
A photograph of cracks in Park Terrace, where an access hole has lifted. Road cones have been placed on the road to warn and direct traffic.
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
A photograph of a humorous sign reading, "Warning! No pot holes next 400 m". The photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Just before intersection of Kilmore St with Fitzgerald Avenue".
A colourful tarpaulin is draped over a hole in the Lyttelton Museum on Norwich Quay. The building was constructed in 1911 to house the Seamen's Institute.
A hydraulic excavator on Kilmore Street, lifting a steel beam over a hole in the ground. The area is fenced off by wire fencing and there are road cones across the street.
Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
Sand volcanoes" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcanoes were caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
A "sand volcano" in the Heathcote Estuary. The volcano was caused by liquefaction, where the soil lost its strength and water erupted out of the hole, taking silt with it.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Otakaro Place, Bexley. A great hole has opened up between the deck and the garden with fissures all over the garden".