
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Road cracks".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Caledonian Hall".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Shipleys Audio".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Latimer Square".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Avon River".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Road cracks".
More reports on earthquake aftershock damage from Christchurch.
A photograph of earthquake damage on River Road.
Earthquake damage inside a house in St Albans.
Earthquake damage inside a house in St Albans.
A photograph of earthquake damage on Avonside Drive.
The Aromaunga Flowers nursery in Heathcote, Christchurch sits right above the point where the earthquake struck on 22 February. Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits the growing business to find out what damage has been done and how owner John Baxter and his partner Elisabeth Marsh are coping.
Broken windows on Leicester House. Broken filing cabinets and other fittings lie on the ground in front of the building. The photographer comments, "As you can see the game did not last very long".
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Damage to a house in Richmond. The brick wall is badly cracked and twisted, and some bricks have fallen, exposing the lining paper below. The driveway is cracked and covered in liquefaction. The photographer comments, "These photos show our old house in River Rd. More shaking damage on the east wall of the living room at our house".
The damaged Carlton Hotel. The parapet and part of the upper storey has collapsed.
Damage to a house in Richmond. A large crack runs through a brick wall.
At 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused severe damage in Christchurch and Lyttelton, killing 185 people and injuring several thousand.