20120131_8129_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Houses teeter over the edge above Redcliffs School.

20120131_8174_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Houses above Main Road, Sumner.

20120131_8198_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Damaged houses above Shag Rock.

20120131_8153_1D3-400 Conatiner wall

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Part of the container wall to stop rock falls on Main Road, Sumner.

20120131_8169_1D3-400 Conatiner wall

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Part of a house that fell can be seen on the rocks above right hand containers.

20120128_8071_1D3-400 Redcliffs wall

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The sea wall at Beachville Road, Redcliffs, after the earthquake. It used to be straight and level - not now! As a teenager I went fishing off this wall.

20120131_8167_1D3-400 Shag Pile

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What more can one say except that Shag Rock is now about one third it's original height. Whitewash Head in the background with the road that now drops over a cliff.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 400

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "248 Tuam Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2012 photograph 400

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Dance-O-Mat, corner Manchester/St Asaph Streets".

20120529_5558_1D3-400 Waters Edge Demolition [Explored]

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Demolition of the relatively new seven-storey Waters Edge Apartments in Ferrymead continues. CERES Environmental NZ are doing the job for CERA (Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority). Some will be pleased to see this block go as there was lot of resentment to it being built on the site of the old Ferrymead Tavern, Selected for Explore, #347...

Gap Filler project 22 time lapse, photograph 400

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A photograph from a time-lapse series documenting the contruction of Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion. The photograph was taken from the top of the Christchurch Casino.

Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 21 September 2012

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158 other buildings may share CTV construction flaw; US defence chief lifts ban on NZ vessels in US ports; first snapshot of national standards data published today; Korean fishing boat officers fined more than $400,000; and SFO starts investigation into Christchurch earthquake insurance fraud.