A story submitted by Shelley to the QuakeStories website.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Manchester Street with the Holiday Inn in the background.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Manchester Street with the Holiday Inn in the background.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking down Worcester Boulevard with the Arts Centre in the bottom right.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking over the Arts Centre with Christ's College to the right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "116 Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace pump house".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Press building on Gloucester Street at dusk. The central city red zone now has office workers and lights on".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The lights are on at the new Press building, the first office workers to return to the central city red zone".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over the Westpac Trust Building towards the Holiday Inn.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "At the entrance to Struthers Lane between 139 and 141 Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "City Council crew cleaning up on the Colombo - High Street intersection".
A photograph of a hole in the footpath outside St Paul's Church where liquefaction has forced its way up.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Detail of the windows in Alice in Videoland. The building was designed with permanence and strength in mind and the new owner intends the fit out to have the same feel of permanence. His aspiration is to build the best coffee house in the world and the largest in Christchurch".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the entrance of a driveway on Glenarm Terrace. A large hole in the foreground has had a road cone placed inside it. Other large cracks and liquefaction can bee seen. A man in overalls has parked his van next to the damage.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "207-211 Cashel Street. All buildings demolished including the CTV building (behind the digger). Latimer Square in the background".
Sandbags placed along the river bank to prevent flooding onto the road. The earthquake caused the ground in this area to subside , making it susceptible to flooding.
A view down the High Street Mall from Cashel Street, looking towards the Port Hills. Rubble from a collapsed building is visible on the right.
A photograph submitted by Sarndra to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Piles of silt for removal, Niven Street, Avondale [red zone section]. Approx 29 February 2011.".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "3 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi. This side of the street is blue-green (Technical Category 3) and the opposite side is red zoned".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oran and Waitaki Streets, Bexley".
A story submitted by Lindsay McKenzie to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Robyna Smith to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Linda Grainger to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Lynne Stewart to the QuakeStories website.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 22 June 2011.