A cleared building site on the corner of Oxford Street and London Street in Lyttelton.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of shops on Colombo Street near the intersection of Kilmore Street. Large sections of the top storeys of the buildings have collapsed. Most of the bricks and other rubble have been cleared from the footpath. USAR codes have been spray-painted on many of the shops' windows. The closest store has been demolished and the rubble has been cleared away.
Next to a pile of bricks, spray-painted USAR codes on a footpath read, "Clear/R, 4 Mar".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "London Street showing the cleared site of the Empire Hotel".
Residents enjoying a meal after working to clear liquefaction from a property in north-east Christchurch.
A photograph of a cleared site. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Papanui Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall looking towards the Whitcoulls site and the BNZ in the distance behind the centre tree".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street with the Heritage Hotel on Worcester Street at the rear left".
Ferry Road in Ferry Road. Liquefaction silt has been partly cleared from the road, but many traces remain.
An apartment complex that has been taped off. The words "Stay Clear" have been spray painted on a fence.
A photograph of a volunteer using a small digger to clear the former site of Piko Wholefoods.
A photograph of St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square, seen across a cleared site on Cashel Street.
Diggers at the CTV site. The rubble from the site has mostly been cleared, leaving an empty building site.
Diggers at the CTV site. The rubble from the site has mostly been cleared, leaving an empty building site.
The Government has a clear picture of what areas of Christchurch cannot be rebuilt because of earthquake damage but will not reveal them yet.
A long line of cars on Shirley Road. While the centre of the road is clear, there is flooding and liquefaction along the edges.
A Christchurch resident loading shovels and a wheelbarrow into the boot of her car after using them to clear liquefaction.
A photograph of the partially-cleared site of a demolished building on Colombo Street. Bricks and some building rubble still remain.
Parliament was adjourned as news of the earthquake came through. Party leaders made statements to the House as the seriousness of the situation became clear.
A pile of liquefaction silt on the side of a street in Richmond. The photographer comments, "Liquefaction silt took several weeks to be cleared away".
A photograph of a member of an emergency management team standing in the middle of the intersection of Manchester, High, and Lichfield Streets. In the background an excavator is sitting on top of a pile of rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings. Other emergency management personnel are also standing on the corner of High and Manchester Streets. Behind the excavator another excavator is working to clear rubble. To the right there is a block of earthquake-damaged buildings and more building rubble to be cleared.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Piles of silt on Flemington Avenue in North New Brighton, cleared from residents' gardens".
A sign reading, "For sale by tender" outside an empty lot on Manchester Street. A building has been demolished and cleared from the site.
An empty lot on the corner of Barbadoes Street and St Asaph Street. A building has been demolished and cleared from the site.
In June, the Hororata hotel in Canterbury closed after it became clear there was no economic way to repair damage caused by the September earthquake.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A pile of rubble on the back corner of the cleared site at 44 London Street in Lyttelton".
A member of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue teamwatching as a digger clears rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Gap Filler project on the cleared site of the Starlight Theatre in London Street, Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall".
Liquefaction surrounds a car on Hendon Street in St Albans, near the corner with Hills Road. In the background, 'keep clear' tape cordons off the front of a property.