A photograph of a stepladder resting on a wall. Artwork on the wall shows kowhai flowers and other native plants. There are broken windows on the wall to the side of the ladder.
A photograph of a broken brick wall beside the Amuri Courts car park building on Armagh Street. USAR codes have been spray painted in yellow on the wall.
The east wall of St Luke's Church on Manchester Street. The top of the wall has broken away and is now covered with plastic to prevent weather damage inside the building.
Damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch. Leadlight windows are warped and broken, and bricks have fallen from the wall.
Damage to a house in Richmond. Part of the brick wall has slumped to one side, leaving a visible gap between the wall and a windowframe. Broken wooden framing can be seen in the gap. The photographer comments, "Cracking in the external brickwork".
Plywood sheeting covers a broken window in the Gallery Apartments building. On the wall in front is spray-painted "All off, water".
Plywood sheeting covers a broken window in the Gallery Apartments building. On the wall in front is spray-painted "All off, water".
A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Canterbury Television Building. Some of the windows have broken and large cracks can be seen in the walls.
A photograph of Kims Restaurant on Colombo Street with a damaged gable. The bricks have broken from the wall and fallen inside the building.
A photograph of Marie Hudson opening a box of broken china in a garage. Hudson is wearing painting overalls.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "August 2013. Moving into our new inner-city workshop...on the 2nd storey of a quake-damaged building. We could see daylight through the walls in places."
A house on Main Road in Redcliffs showing signs of severe damage. The walls of the house have broken in places and it has been spray painted with the words, "Danger, keep out".
A photograph of an earthquake damaged building on Lichfield Street. The brick wall of the top storey has crumbled, exposing the wooden structure inside. Many of the windows have broken.
Patchwork quilts wrapped around the concrete slabs used to stabilise a broken wall on Winchester Street. They make it look snug despite the snow. Many projects like this have cropped up around Canterbury in an effort to brighten the earthquake environment.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Lichfield Street. The brick wall of the top storey of the building has crumbled, exposing the wooden structure underneath. Many of the windows are broken.
A patchwork quilt suspended from the railings of a broken wall on the corner of Dublin and Winchester Street in Lyttelton. "Lyttelton, don't let the blues get you" has been stitched into the quilt, which is covered in snow.
Patchwork quilts wrapped around the concrete slabs used to stabilise a broken wall on Winchester Street. They make it look snug despite the snow. Many projects like this have cropped up around Canterbury in an effort to brighten the earthquake environment.
A Civil Defence staff member completing a Level 1 Rapid Assessment inspection on a damaged house. The brickwork on the outer walls have collapsed. The window on the left hand side has been broken.
A poem written on Gap Filler and Poetica's "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street. The poem reads, "Amidst the shards of glass and twisted steel, beside the fallen brick and scattered concrete, we began to understand that there is beauty in the broken. Strangers do not live here anymore". This poem was picked by the public as the favourite poem written on the wall. It was then painted permanently onto the mural.
Internal damage to a house in Richmond. Wallboard has broken away in the upper corner of a room, exposing the brickwork. The photographer comments, "Cracks in the wall of the sunroom. A lot of the plaster has subsequently fallen off the bricks".
An image from an Air Force News April 2011 article titled, "Helping Hand for Lyttelton Museum". The image depicts the damaged Lyttelton Museum with a broken top wall and wire fencing around the building.
Forbes' Store on Norwich Quay with a broken awning and damage visible on the brick walls. Scaffolding placed around the building since the 4 September 2010 earthquake has tumbled during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Forbes' Store on Norwich Quay with a broken awning and damage visible on the brick walls. Scaffolding placed around the building since the 4 September 2010 earthquake has tumbled during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of the north-west corner of the ChristChurch Cathedral in Cathedral Square. The tower to the right has been partially demolished with only the lower section remaining. The door to the tower can be seen through the broken walls.
Blackwell's Department Store on the corner of Raven and Williams Streets in Kaiapoi. The top story of the building has collapsed into the bottom, as well as the awning into the street. A broken brick wall is visible above.
A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office examining earthquake damage on the outside of the Copthorne Hotel. A section of the outer wall has broken away, and pieces are scattered onto the footpath below.
An abandoned residential property at 28 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The front of the section is covered with weeds and silt from liquefaction. Three broken chairs lie outside the front of the house. The front door is open. 'HM' has been spray-painted in green onto the front wall.
A damaged brick building on Centaurus Road with "Danger Keep Out" tape around the property. The brick walls have cracked and broken above two of the windows and a red sticker has been placed on the front window indicating that the building is unsafe to enter.
Damage to a house in Richmond. The brick wall is badly cracked and twisted, and some bricks have fallen, exposing the lining paper and framing below. The photographer comments, "These photos show our old house in River Rd and recovery work around Richmond and St Albans. I think it's broken".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a stairwell in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Large sections of the concrete wall behind the stair rail have broken away to reveal the steel reinforcement underneath.
A photograph of street art by the DTR crew located on a factory wall in the central city. The artwork depicts the word "Freak" with the letters "DTR" written above it and topped with a crown. The window below the art is broken.