A photograph looking down south down Poplar Lane from the intersection of Lichfield Street. The lane is littered with bricks from the earthquake-damaged buildings above. A car parked on the right side of the lane has also been crushed by the falling bricks. Behind the car a message reading, 'Open your eyes. Life is beautiful', has been chalked on a brick wall.
A photograph of fallen bricks in front of the badly-damaged Odeon Theatre.
Damage to a brick bulding. Part of the double-brick wall has collapsed, exposing the interior of the building.
Detail of damage to a brick chimney in St Albans where bricks have fallen onto the roof.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team walking past a pile of bricks. The bricks have been stacked on Barbadoes Street in front of a house.
A photograph of a colourful wall of bricks. There is damage on the right hand side of the wall. There is also a pattern made from fallen bricks in front of it.
A photograph of the earthquake damage the brick fence of a house in Christchurch. Bricks from the broken fence have been stacked on the footpath in front. Liquefaction has been piled on the footpath and road cones placed in front.
A photograph of two members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team walking past a pile of bricks. The bricks have been stacked on Barbadoes Street in front of a house.
A photograph of the earthquake damage the brick fence of a house in Christchurch. Bricks from the broken fence have been stacked on the footpath in front. Liquefaction has been piled on the footpath and road cones placed in front.
A photograph of a car on Gloucester Street which has been crushed by falling bricks from the Canterbury Times and Star building. There is a pile of bricks on the front of the car.
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 photographer comments, "These photos show our old house in River Rd. Bricks are skewed and pulled in several directions".
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Civil Engineer Professor Jason Ingham discusses his extensive projects investigating seismic retrofit of structures in earthquake regions he's been to over the past 12 months, Indonesia, Chile and of course, Christchurch.
A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch.
A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch.
Cracks in the mortar of the brick Kaiapoi War Memorial building on Charles Street.
A photograph of a collapsed brick building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Heathcote".
Cracks in the mortar of the brick Kaiapoi War Memorial building on Charles Street.
Cracks in the mortar of the brick Kaiapoi War Memorial building on Charles Street.
A photograph of badly-damaged buildings on Tuam Street. Bricks and building rubble litter the footpath.
A large crack in the wall of a brick building. Fallen bricks litter the ground below.
A crumbled wall on a brick house on Centaurus road revealing the inner layer.
The bricks above the window on a house on Centaurus road have fallen inwards.
A photograph of a collapsed brick building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Heathcote".
Pile of bricks gathered from a fallen chimney at a residential property.
The ground of The Pump House in Linwood. A pile of brick sits next to the damage brick wall.
A photograph of a collapsed brick building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Heathcote".
A photograph of bricks from an earthquake-damaged house that have fallen against a fence.
A car damaged by falling bricks, evident by the pile of bricks still on top of the car.
Large cracks run through the brick cladding of this house in Wainoni. The photographer comments, "During the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch the land which ran alongside the Avon river on Avonside Drive slumped towards the waterway. Houses which were wooden framed and had an external brick veneer started to sink into the liquefied soil. This caused the brick walls to crack, but the houses' occupants though shook up were saved by the wooden framework from the houses collapsing on them".