
An image from a Army News March 2011 article titled, "Defence Medical Personnel Use Their Expertise". The image shows members of the South Australian Urban Search and Rescue team digging through rubble in the central city.
A photograph of a member of an emergency management team standing in front of an excavator on Manchester Street. The excavator is sitting on top of a pile of rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings. In the background is another excavator clearing rubble.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.
A photograph of a pile of rubble from a partially-demolished building on Tuam Street. The rubble is in front of the Team Hutchinson Ford building. Road cones and a wire fence have been placed on the street in the distance.
A photograph of rubble outside the Cranmer Centre on the corner of Armagh and Montreal Streets. The rubble is from the front walls of the building which have crumbled in places, spilling bricks onto the street. Cordon fencing has been placed around the building.
Building rubble on High Street.
A photograph of the partially-cleared site of a demolished building on Colombo Street. Bricks and some building rubble still remain.
A photograph looking across several sites of demolished buildings in the Christchurch central city. A excavator can be seen clearing rubble from a site.
A photograph of a large pile of building rubble from demolished buildings on Colombo Street near the intersection with Tuam Street.
Rubble and scaffolding from 249 St Asaph Street. In the background, the Alice in Videoland Building can be seen.
A photograph of rubble from a demolished house on the corner of Springfield Road and Bealey Avenue.
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 of a block of earthquake-damaged rooms at Stonehurst Accommodation on Gloucester Street. The bottom storey of the block has collapsed and the remaining rooms are now resting on an incline. The front walls of these rooms have also collapsed and the rubble has spilled in to the courtyard in front. Cordon tape has been draped across the courtyard in front of the rubble. To the left there is a car parked amongst the rubble.
A photograph of the rubble of the Observatory tower in the South Quad of the Christchurch Arts Centre. The tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A digger was used to clear the rubble away from the building. In the foreground is Chris Whitty, Site Manager of the Christchurch Arts Centre.
A photograph of rubble from earthquake-damaged buildings along Colombo Street near the intersection with St Asaph Street. On the left-hand side of the street cars have been crushed by falling rubble. The road has been cordoned off with wire fencing.
A photograph of High Street looking towards the intersection of Manchester and Lichfield Streets. Rubble from earthquake-damaged buildings litters the street to the right. In the distance excavators are clearing rubble from Manchester and High Streets while emergency management personnel look on.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of buildings on Lichfield Street. The top floor of the middle building has collapsed and the rubble has spilled onto the street. A large section of the closest building has also collapsed. Most of the rubble has since been cleared from the footpath.
A photograph looking west down Dundas Street. Rubble has been stacked on both sides of the street. Several earthquake-damaged cars, recovered from the Smiths City car park, have also been stacked on the left. In the background two excavators are sorting through the rubble.
Photos taken in Lyttelton on March 20 following the February 22 earthquake. File reference: CCL-2011-03-20-After-The-Earthquake-P1110714 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Photos taken in Lyttelton on March 20 following the February 22 earthquake. File reference: CCL-2011-03-20-After-The-Earthquake-P1110719 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
A photograph of the rubble from the demolished Manchester Securities House on the corner of Madras and Gloucester Streets.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This is a pile of munched concrete rubble".
A photograph of rubble piled up in a car park in the Christchurch central city. Several flights of concrete stairs can be seen.
A photograph of building rubble on the footpath outside the Caffe Roma restaurant on Oxford Terrace.
Rubble from a building on St Asaph Street. In the background, a building which has collapsed during the earthquake can be seen.
Rubble and wreckage in Cathedral Square.
A photograph of a pile of rubble in front of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. The rubble has landed on a car and crushed it. Wire fencing has been placed around the cathedral as a cordon.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Corner of Harewood Road and Main North Road, Papanui".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Old A & T Burts building, Ferry Road, Woolston".