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Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:11:22 16:46:39

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Amy Johnston Bray outside her Avonside home, red-stickered due to the earthquake. She is frustrated at how long the EQC process is taking".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:09:16 14:41:40

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Jennifer Savage and Andrew Dutton were booked to be married in the St Johns Church in Latimer Square that was damaged in the earthquake".

The Marlborough Express Image: Scott Hammond 2010:09:27 14:11:38

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kelland and Ruth Ramsay. They are from Christchurch and will be having a baby in Blenheim because they were not happy with the earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:09:06 14:04:07

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Patients queue at the 24 hour surgery on Colombo Street. Louisa Sparrow (clinical nursing director) (L) and Dr Simon Brokenshire (clinical director)".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:06 15:22:14

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of Christchurch earthquake as residents start to clean up. Cory Walsh on the silt down the rear of his Waireka Lane, Bexley, property".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:09 13:52:48

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault runs between the house and garage of this property".

Christchurch Press Image: Carys Monteath 2010:11:11 13:29:44

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Heather Smith, service delivery supervisor for Battered Women's Refuge, starts moving things into their new safe house after the previous property sustained earthquake damage".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor 2010:09:05 05:56:38

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Baby born just after quake. The Garcia family from left: Nico (20 months), Israel, Miriam and new born baby Amelia".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor 2010:09:05 05:57:57

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Baby born just after quake. The Garcia family from left: Nico (20 months), Israel, Miriam and new born baby Amelia".

Christchurch Press Image: Stacy Squires 2010:10:14 12:20:32

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Manchester Courts building was damaged in the September earthquake and is becoming more unstable. There is talk about moving the cordons further back".

Natalie Kerschner WEMO Photograph 138

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a store on Colombo Street. The front wall of the top two storeys has collapsed into the street, exposing the inside.

Cappuccino Dreams. "When I'm mayor you'll get more transparency in financi…

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'Cappuccino dreams'. Christchurch mayoral candidates Jim Anderton and incumbent mayor Bob Parker tell constituents that they will get respectively more transparency in 'financial dealings' and in 't-shirts'. As the earthquake strikes they continue their electioneering until they are told to 'clear orf' because 'these frames lack substance'. A front-end loader begins to dismantle the structure from which they are speaking. Refers to the local body elections to take place 9th October and the Canterbury earthquake of 4th September. Published in the Presto Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Darroch, Bob, 1940- :"It's ok - it's not the force 6 that they are expecti…

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The room shakes and shudders, ornaments fall off the mantelpeice, pictures fly off the walls and the family is jolted from chairs. It's granny upstairs doing her get-slim exercises'. 'It's not the force 6 that they are expecting'. Context: Reference to the Christchurch earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

removing the chimney

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The chimney busted right through the wooden beam holding up the roof. I'm told it may an alarming noise.

Sign now on many streets in the area

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As a way of reducing traffic - and hence damaging vibrations - many streets are partially blocked by these signs. Also many of them have a 30kph speed limit.

old iMac down

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(It was already opened up mid-way through a repair. But it wasn't on the floor!)

sealing the roof

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Laura Young and I tying down tarps over the hole in the roof. We did what we could to tie it down with tension and weigh it down with bricks tied to the tarps. Why? Because gale-force winds are predicted for tomorrow (Sunday) and rain on Tuesday.

removing the chimney

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Laura and her neighbour getting the chimney down before it comes through their ceiling. Ominous cracks were growing in the ceiling.

Ruth Gardner's Blog 05/09/2010: Confined to Cottage

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An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 5 September 2010 entitled, "Confined to Cottage".

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Police tape cordons off large cracks in the road beside large piles of liquefaction dug from people's houses on a street in Avonside after the September 4th earthquake.

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Workers digging up the road on the corner of Avonside Drive and Retreat Road in Avonside, with road cones and "Road Closed" sign, after the September 4th earthquake.

Interview with Sonia Giovinazzi

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An interview with Research Fellow in Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, Sonia Giovinazzi. This interview was conducted by Emma Kelland as part of Deirdre Hart's Coastal and River Earthquake Research project .