Oxford Terrace Baptist

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

this one looks pretty bad sadly.

Oxford Terrace Baptist

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

this one looks pretty bad sadly.

Colombo Street

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham is in a bad way. These are all closed; the shop at centre has collapsed.

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:12:05 20:26:35

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nickie McFedries has had a bad run. Her Brittan Terrace house in Lyttelton has suffered extensive earthquake damage and now vandals have smashed up her car in the early hours of this morning".

Best of the Week - 17 September 2010

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 17 September. This week........criticism of some media over coverage of the Canterbury earthquake, the French five hour working week exposed, Sir Keith Park's legacy 70 years after the Battle of Britain, Cold - a new book explores this temperature good and bad and fond memories shared of the Monde Marie coffee shop in Wellington.

sand volcano tours

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Yes, it was a joke. The tours, that is, not the yard filled with earthquake-caused sand volcanos. They were very real. You can see one covering the driveway in this photo. The signs read as follows. "Tours run 1/2 hourly. $5.25 admission. Eftpos unavailable." "If you think this is bad... you should see the back!"