Liquefaction silt and sand cover the lawn of a residential property. The photographer comments, "This is a garden inundated with liquefaction. Though most liquefaction is grey in Christchurch there must have been golden sandy beaches before the volcanoes erupted millions of years ago".
Demolition rubble next to a house where the walls have crumbled. The wall has been covered by a tarpaulin.
A photograph of a detail of the front of Christ Church Cathedral. The upper part of the front wall has crumbled leaving the inside space exposed. Steel bracing has been placed against the wall to limit further damage.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A collapsed stone wall in Godley Quay, Lyttelton".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A collapsed stone wall in Godley Quay, Lyttelton".
A crack in a wall of the University of Canterbury Electronic Learning Media team's offices. The photographer comments, "Cracks in walls".
A damaged brick building. The wall of the upper storey has collapsed, and part of the lower wall is leaning outwards.
A crack in a wall of the University of Canterbury Electronic Learning Media team's offices. The photographer comments, "Cracks in the Project Office walls".
Bricks and a window frame fallen from the wall of a single-storey building. The gap left by the fallen wall has been covered with plywood sheeting.
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 24 December 2011 entitled, "Retaining Walls and Earthquakes".
A crumbling wall of the Cramner Courts. The wall's collapse has exposed the thick, unreinforced masonry that it is made of.
The collapsed rear wall of a building on Armagh Street. The bricks and timber from the wall have spilled onto the section's lawn.
A house on Montreal Street with a damaged side wall, the front layer of bricks fallen away to expose the wall underneath.
Damage to a building in Bedford Row. One wall has collapsed, and there are large cracks in the brickwork of the other visible wall.
The side wall of a building on Worcester Street. Timber bracing has been placed along the top of the wall and black plastic to cover the gaps.
It's been revealed that the Earthquake Commission knew a wall which crushed two people in Christchurch's February earthquake was at risk of collapsing.
Damage to a building on Ferry Road. The side walls have partially collapsed, and part of the brick wall is bowing outwards in danger of further collapse.
Damage to a building on Ferry Road. The side walls have partially collapsed, and part of the brick wall is bowing outwards in danger of further collapse.
A painting rests against the wall of the Durham Street Methodist Church. Chips of plaster from the building's walls have fallen around it.
An exposed concrete wall.
An exposed concrete wall.
The brick wall of a building in Redcliffs that has cracked and fallen away in some places. Sections of the wall have buckled out from the building's structure.
Detail of damage to a building on Ferry Road. The side walls have partially collapsed, and part of the brick wall is bowing outwards in danger of further collapse.
Damage to Weston House on Park Terrace. The front wall of those house has crumbled into the garden below. USAR codes have been spray-painted on the brick wall.
A photograph of a damaged wall captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The earthquake-damaged wall of a property at 107A Courtenay Drive in Kaiapoi".
A wall on the former site of Piko Wholefoods. A damaged part of the wall is covered with a graffiti paste-up of an elastoplast, with a speech bubble reading, "You poor thing".
Detail of damage to a building on Ferry Road. The side walls have partially collapsed, and part of the brick wall is bowing outwards in danger of further collapse.
The damaged Carlton Hotel with scaffolding on one side supporting the walls. On the other side, the wall has crumbled, exposing the interior, and leaving a pile of building rubble on the footpath.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Menlo Terrace".
A photograph of a postal worker delivering mail on a street with damaged houses. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Redcliffs and Sumner".