A view of the Christchurch CBD, taken from the Port Hills.
A fence and Road Closed sign block off an earthquake-damaged road in rural Canterbury.
Cracks in the road and liquefaction at the intersection of Rich Street and Raven Quay in Kaiapoi.
Damage to St John the Baptist church in Latimer Square.
Damaged buildings on Colombo Street, seen through the cordon fence.
A damaged chimney on a house on Papanui Road.
A large crack where the land has slumped away next to a road. In the background sightseers take photographs of the damage.
A large crack through a footpath and grass verge.
Bealey Pharmacy cordoned off with danger tape after the parapet collapsed onto its awning.
Damage to the Community of the Sacred Name building on Barbadoes Street.
What is left of a house on the clifftop in Sumner which has partially fallen from the cliff.
A large crack runs across the playground on the corner of Peraki and Fuller Streets in Kaiapoi.
Peraki Street in Kaiapoi, near the railway level crossing. The road and footpath surfaces are cracked and buckled.
Cracks in the road and liquefaction at the intersection of Rich and Hilton Streets in Kaiapoi. Some of the liqufaction has been dug out of properties and placed in piles on the side of the road.
Liquefaction silt and cracking in a paddock near Kaiapoi.
A tarpaulin covers the damaged gable end of a building on Hereford Street.
Damage to the southwest corner of Cranmer Courts. Plywood sheeting covers a wall where the stonework has fallen away.
Damage to the Blackwells building in Kaiapoi. Part of the facade has collapsed onto the street below. In the foreground is the War Memorial.
Sightseers inspect the damage to a road which buckled during the earthquake, leaving a series of large cracks across the tarmac.
A red-stickered building in Papanui, cordoned off with danger tape and a crowd barrier. The windows have been boarded up and spray-painted with USAR markings.
A woman inspects a large crack in the ground near the side of the road.
Liquefaction in a residential garden in Kaiapoi.
Cracks along the edge of Raven Quay in Kaiapoi, where the land has slumped towards the river.
The old post office building in Kaiapoi.
A buckled footbridge over the Kaiapoi River.
Damage to the Blackwells building in Kaiapoi. Parts of the facade and roof have collapsed.
A man pushes a wheelbarrow full of liquefaction silt in Black Street in Kaiapoi. A small sinkhole is visible in the foreground.
Sightseers inspect the damage to a road which buckled during the earthquake, leaving a series of large cracks across the tarmac.
The fence of this house in Kaiapoi has sunk into the liquefaction silt.
A digger removes liquefaction from a street in Kaiapoi.