A photograph of a sign taped to the lamp post in front of Sonya Smith Atelier on Colombo Street. The sign reads, "Danger, keep out, restricted area". A yellow sticker on the front door also indicates that access to the building is restricted. A handwritten sign on the door reads, "Cannot open safely until structure is checked. Please ring Sonya if needing any more assistance. Sonya. Keep safe".
A photograph of rubble and glass on the footpath outside Manchester Courts on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets. The photograph is taken through the wire of a cordon fence.
A photograph of the Cranmer Courts on the corner of Kilmore and Montreal Streets. Tiles have been stripped off the roof by a chimney which fell during the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A photograph of lateral shifting in a rural road indicating the location of the Greendale fault line.
A photograph of a map of the Greendale fault line in Canterbury used by volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office.
A photograph of a kitchen with food and drinks for the emergency management personnel at a temporary Civil Defence headquarters. The headquarters was set up at the Mainland Foundation Ballpark after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A photograph of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Montreal and Hereford Streets. There are large cracks between the windows.
A photograph of a house on Montreal Street opposite the Christchurch Art Gallery. The chimney has been removed from the roof and a tarpaulin has been secured over the top.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the curb of Gayhurst Road.
A photograph of a cracks in a road in Christchurch.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Westpac Trust Building on Cashel Street.
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office standing in a crack in a field near the Greendale fault line.
A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office setting up a table in Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A photograph of St Paul's Church on Gayhurst Road.
A photograph of masonry removed from Cranmer Courts on the corner of Montreal and Kilmore Streets.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Cranmer Courts on the corner of Montreal and Kilmore Streets. The brick walls of the gables have crumbled at the top, and wooden bracing has been placed against them to limit further damage.
A photograph of soil uplift in a paddock near Highfield Road in Darfield.
A photograph of damage to Highfield Road, showing the tar stretched across a crack.
A private pool on a property on Avonside Drive. The pool has lifted out of its casing and now looks like an above ground pool.
A PDF copy of the Shore View community newspaper, published on Sunday 10 October 2010.
A PDF copy of the Shore View community newspaper, published on Sunday 24 January 2010.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 17 September 2010, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which we lose an em".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
A photograph of workers in a crane-raise platform removing bricks from the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road.
The old post office building in Kaiapoi.
An aerial photograph of rural Canterbury following the 4 September earthquake.
A photograph of a crack in a bank next to a motorway in Christchurch. A tape measure in the crack indicates that it is over six feet deep.
A photograph of damage to the road on Evans Avenue in New Brighton.
A photograph of a pile of silt from liquefaction in a garden and driveway.
A photograph of a sewer pipe under repair in Christchurch.
A buckled footbridge over the Kaiapoi River.