Sticky Fingers Restaurant & Bar, on the ground floor of the Clarendon Tower, seen from across from the Avon river.
Insulation waiting to be installed into the floor of one of the temporary classrooms in the Ilam Oval.
Pieces of decorative stonework that have been arranged on the floor of the Durham Street Methodist Church.
A worker inserts glue between the insulation panels in the floor of one of the temporary buildings on the Ilam Oval.
Piles in the ground, waiting for the floors of temporary classrooms to be built on top, on the Ilam Oval.
The multi-storey Pacific Brands building on Victoria Street has been cordoned off. The Cranfield shop occupied the first floor.
Rob Clark was on the sixth floor of his office building when the quake struck, and got stuck in gridlock leaving the CBD.
A staff member takinga photograph of grains and beans fallen from bags onto the floor of Piko Wholefoods.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Press Building, Cathedral Square. Top floor collapsed during the February 22 earthquake".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The dramatically sloping floor of the Hotel Grand Chancellor car park".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Press Building, Cathedral Square. Top floor collapsed during the February 22 earthquake".
Emergency and security staff members prepare to enter the 6th floor of the Registry building to retrieve work from the offices there.
Emergency and security staff members prepare to enter the 6th floor of the Registry building to retrieve work from the offices there.
Emergency and security staff members prepare to enter the 6th floor of the Registry building to retrieve work from the offices there.
Emergency and security staff members prepare to enter the 6th floor of the Registry building to retrieve work from the offices there.
Emergency and security staff members prepare to enter the 6th floor of the Registry building to retrieve work from the offices there.
Nilgun Kulpe a counsellor with Relationship Services in Christchurch who was working on the 5th floor of the CTV building when the earthquake struck.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Sumner Library, seen through the front window".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Sumner Library, seen through the front window".
Damage to an apartment complex on Durham Street. The building has collapsed on the ground floor level, and the concrete block fence collapsed.
A member of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) drilling a hole in the floor of a kitchen.
A photograph of a building on Cashel Street. Some of the windows on the bottom floor have been boarded up with plywood.
A member of the emergency team climbing the stairs on the first floor of the Registry Building, on the way to retrieve important items.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Second floor of The Press building".
A photograph submitted by Gaynor James to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "DTZ building going, 20 July 2011. A small crowd watches the demolition …There is an eerie silence- no excited buzz – people watching yet another part of their history turning into rubble. The wrecking ball, delicately positioned, drops and is followed by the cracking and rending of floor after floor and the debris tumbles down … It starts to clear and an extraordinary sight greets us. Hundreds and hundreds of sheets of paper drift down like giant confetti.".
A photograph of the interior of the Hotel Grand Chancellor. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The bar tenders' floor".
Objects lie on the floor of a shop where they have fallen. Reflected in the windows is the damaged brickwork of buildings opposite.
Vice Chancellor Rod Carr preparing to enter and retrieve his work from the 6th floor of the Registry Building, with an emergency and security staff member.
A back room of the Durham Street Methodist Church. Plaster from the walls and ceiling can be seen littering the floor.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Ian Town preparing to enter and retrieve his work from the 6th floor of the Registry Building, with an emergency and security staff member.