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".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library with the books now cleared off the floor in this part".
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.
A photograph of the partially-cleared site of a demolished building on Colombo Street. Bricks and some building rubble still remain.
Diggers work to clear the rubble from a demolished building on Victoria Street. The Victoria Clock Tower can be seen in the distance.
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 photograph of a cleared building site and partially-demolished buildings on Tuam Street, taken from behind a wire fence.
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".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "looking across the almost clear site of the Convention Centre towards the Town Hall".
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 Christchurch resident loading shovels and a wheelbarrow into the boot of her car after using them to clear liquefaction.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Post-earthquake demolition. Materials from a building on St Asaph Street still waiting to be cleared".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The entire north side of Tuam Street from High Street to Madras Street which is now clear ground".
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 photograph of a cleared building site between Cashel Street and Hereford Street. Damaged buildings on Hereford Street can be seen in the distance.
Damaged property that housed the Talon Arms, a Gunsmith store on Worcester Street. On it are some signs that say 'Free bricks here' and 'Guns gone clear'.
A photograph of a cleared building site between High Street and Lichfield Street. Graffiti can be seen on the brick wall.
A photograph looking across to Lichfield Street, taken from a cleared site near the intersection of High Street and Cashel Street.
A photograph of cleared building sites and remaining buildings on Armagh Street, taken from beside the Avon River on Cambridge Terrace.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The entire north side of Tuam Street from High Street to Madras Street which is now clear ground".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Piles of silt on Flemington Avenue in North New Brighton, cleared from residents' gardens".
A photograph of a partially-cleared building site and badly-damaged buildings between St Asaph Street and High Street, viewed from St Asaph Street.
A photograph of a partially-cleared building site and badly-damaged buildings between St Asaph Street and High Street, viewed from St Asaph Street.
A photograph of a partially-cleared building site and badly-damaged buildings between St Asaph Street and High Street, taken from St Asaph Street.
A photograph taken from Oxford Terrace, looking across a cleared site to Gloucester Street. The Forsyth Barr building can be seen in the distance.