Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Tony Everett showing earthquake damage to his new New Brighton house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Tony Everett showing earthquake damage to his new New Brighton house".
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A video examining the New Brighton Master Plan released by the Christchurch City Council. The plan proposes extending Oram Avenue through to the car park on Hawke Street and moving the supermarket to the back of the Hawke Street car park. The slow road through the top part of the mall will also be extended through the pedestrianized section, and a bus exchange will be built on Beresford Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
A page banner promoting an article about wall art in New Brighton.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Flooding in New Brighton".
Liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "After the double quake local to my home, the liquefaction made strange shapes in the liquid content of the outpourings".
20130211_2645_1D3-840 South New Brighton bridge damage (under repair) Earthquake damage (that right hand abutment should be vertical with the bridge and the hand rail level). Bridge is closed to eastbound traffic (to left) and has a 3500kg weight limit as well. The eastern approach is the same. Damage caused mainly in the 04/09/10 and 22/02/11...
A page banner promoting an article about a proposal to revive New Brighton.
A video of an interview with Jeremy and Tania Tomkins about their living situation after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The family of four were forced to move into their garage after the earthquake damaged their New Brighton home.
Detail of damage to the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton. Bricks have fallen from the wall, exposing the interior. The photographer comments, "This is the side view of the back of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. The bricks seem to be just about to fall, but stayed in place after several big aftershocks. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
Residents of Christchurch's coastal suburbs around New Brighton are being promised they won't have to wait another decade for an urgently needed new bridge. The existing one is a critical emergency escape route but is almost 100 years old and suffered significant damage in the 2011 earthquake. And as Timothy Brown reports, plans for an upgrade are grinding slowly ahead.
The brick facade has fallen from the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton, exposing the rooms inside, and crushing a car parked below. The photographer comments, "The front of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. Under the pile of bricks is a luckily unoccupied blue car. The word CLEAR on the broken facade is to show that there is no one in the car. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A unit of about 15 New Zealand Territorial Army soldiers prepare to sandbag a broken pumping station in New Brighton to stop water pouring into neighbouring properties. The pumping station on the corner of Palmers Road and New Brighton Road was badly damaged and water was pouring onto both streets".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A unit of about 15 New Zealand Territorial Army soldiers prepare to sandbag a broken pumping station in New Brighton to stop water pouring into neighbouring properties. The pumping station on the corner of Palmers Road and New Brighton Road was badly damaged and water was pouring onto both streets".
Cracks in a pathway beside the Avon River in New Brighton, caused by the land slumping towards the river. The photographer comments, "On the left of the picture the ground has dropped down half a metre".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Brighton clock tower showing the time that the earthquake struck".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Brighton petrol station owner Sam Park looks over earthquake damage".
A digger works on top of a pile of soil and building rubble.
When I was a kid this bit of land in the foreground was level and extended at least three times further out, but after the earthquakes you can see the angle that land near the river slumped. We used to catch a lot of herrings (yellow -eyed mullet) here when I was a kid, hence the local name of Herring Bay. Across the river is the Bexley Wetlands.
A video showing part of the demolition of the Ozone Hotel in New Brighton. Steve Taylor comments "She put up a good fight. The Ozone in New Brighton was damaged in the February earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Here is the main corner of the structure being, as they say, deconstructed. At the end there is a reverent bow by the excavator. Just before this the claw had caught on the floor/ceiling and the whole building shook from side to side, but it still stayed in place."