A video of water damage from broken pipes inside an office building.
Damaged buildings on Manchester Street, seen from the St Asaph Street intersection.
A photograph of a detail of a damaged building on Hereford Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Manchester Street.
A pile of rubble next to the damaged McKenzie & Willis building.
A photograph of a shipping container barricading damaged buildings on Victoria Street.
Damaged stores on Colombo Street with a cleared building site in front.
Damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers buildings. The roof of the stone chamber has completely collapsed, bringing down scaffolding on the outside of the building.
The 4th of September 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake had generated significant ground shaking within the Christchurch Central Business District (CBD). Despite the apparently significant shaking, the observed structural damage for pre-1970s reinforced concrete (RC) buildings was indeed limited and lower than what was expected for such typology of buildings. This paper explores analytically and qualitatively the different aspects of the "apparent‟ good seismic performance of the pre-1970s RC buildings in the Christchurch CBD, following the earthquake reconnaissance survey by the authors. Damage and building parameters survey result, based on a previously established inventory of building stock of these non-ductile RC buildings, is briefly reported. From an inventory of 75 buildings, one building was selected as a numerical case-study to correlate the observed damage with the non-linear analyses. The result shows that the pre-1970s RC frame buildings performed as expected given the intensity of the ground motion shaking during the Canterbury earthquake. Given the brittle nature of this type of structure, it was demonstrated that more significant structural damage and higher probability of collapse could occur when the buildings were subjected to alternative input signals with different frequency content and duration characteristics and still compatible to the seismicity hazard for Christchurch CBD.
A photograph of a detail of damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 3 August 2011 entitled, "Drum roll please.... It's the asterisk quilt!!!".
A photograph of the damaged Christ Church Cathedral.
A damaged brick building has wooden bracing holding the walls together. The photographer comments, "This building came through the September Christchurch quake with a few band aid plasters, but the February quake means that she is now DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)".
A photograph of the damaged Music Centre of Christchurch.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 February 2011 entitled, "Our corner shops".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 December 2011 entitled, "Scenes in Sumner".
A story submitted by Elizabeth to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Elizabeth to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Nathanael Boehm to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sarah Gallagher to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by John to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Becky to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Leanne to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 26 March 2011 entitled, "Processing Stuff...".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 6 October 2011 entitled, "Look what I found in my sewing room (2)".
A new plan will see all dangerous earthquake-damaged buildings in Christchurch's Cashel Mall pulled down or made safe by mid-July.
A photograph of damaged buildings on Norwich Quay. A car parked in front of the buildings has been crushed by falling bricks.
A photograph of the badly-damaged Fisher's Building on the corner of Hereford Street and High Street. Large amounts of fallen bricks and building rubble cover the footpath and road.
Army presence outside the city cordon on Tuam Street. Road cones and cordon fencing have been placed around damaged buildings. In the background is a building where the walls have crumbled, exposing the interior of the building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seamen's Building in Norwich Quay, Lyttleton, after the damaged top story has been removed".