A photograph of volunteers fron the Wellington Emergency Management Office walking down an earthquake damaged street in Christchurch. In the background, one of the houses has a yellow sticker, indicating that access is restricted.
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.
An abandoned residential property at 31 Seabreeze Close in Bexley. The number 31 has been spray-painted onto the entrance of the house. The door appears to be open. Weeds are growing through the cracks in the driveway.
A "drummer boy" dummy dressed in a hi-vis jacket sits on top of a building on High Street. Written on the back of the building is "Merry Christmas Christchurch Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum". Te Waiponamu House is visible in the background.
A photograph of a portaloo on the side of Kingsford Street in the Horseshoe Lake district. Behind the portaloo is a blue pipe which is carrying water temporarily to houses along the street.
Empty sections where houses once stood at 24A Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The sections are overgrown with weeds. A single Victorian-style street lamp stands on the side of the footpath. The gutter has partly flooded.
A sign attached to the front fence of the Croydon House Bed and Breakfast Hotel reading, "Don't touch this lady without owner's permission". Yellow tape has been laid over the front reading, "Restricted area, please keep out".
Damage to a house in Richmond. A large crack runs through brickwork under a window, and one side of the wall has visibly slumped, leaving a gap between the bricks and the window frame. The photographer comments, "Cracking in the external brickwork".
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.
A photograph of a crushed car outside Bismarck House at 140 Lichfield Street taken from behind a wire fence. Bricks from the building have crumbled from the top storey, landing on the roof of the car and crushing it.
Internal damage to a house in Richmond. The top of a window frame has separated from its side, and above a large crack in the wallboard has exposed the bricks behind. The photographer comments, "Cracks in the wall of the sunroom".
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".
Internal damage to a house in Richmond. A large crack in the wallboard below a window has exposed the bricks, and the skirting board has moved away from the floor. The photographer comments, "Cracks in the wall of the sunroom".
Damage to a house in Richmond. Part of the brick wall has slumped to one side, leaving visible gaps between the wall and the roof, and between the wall and a windowframe. The photographer comments, "Cracking in the external brickwork".
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team walking past a pile of bricks. The bricks have been stacked on Barbadoes Street in front of a house.
A photograph of two members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team walking past a pile of bricks. The bricks have been stacked on Barbadoes Street in front of a house.
A photograph of people gathered beside Julia Morison's artwork Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers for an outdoor movie screening of Heavenly Creatures. The screening was part of Picture Palace Parade for FESTA 2014.
A photograph captioned, "I miss living here, right by the river. I'd been there for quite a long time, 12 years or so. I realize now I took it for granted a bit. I used to get a bit bored with having a big old house that was cold, difficult to clean, and perhaps hard to keep warm. But now, when I go back there, I miss living in a big house by the river with an open fire and a big lounge and everything. I had the park there on the other side of the river. And there was a little bridge down there where you could walk over to it. There was actually a circuit you could do, up to the New Brighton Bridge and back. Yeah, it was beautiful".
A photograph of a fire fighter standing in front of 33 Worcester Street, now a pile of rubble after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. Fire damage can be seen on the house next door.
A photograph looking through the door of the front room in Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace to the lounge and kitchen. A bed has been placed in the middle of the lounge.
A photograph of a fire fighter standing in front of 33 Worcester Street, now a pile of rubble after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. Fire damage can be seen on the house next door.
Broken windows on Leicester House. Broken filing cabinets and other fittings lie on the ground in front of the building. The photographer comments, "As you can see the game did not last very long".
An abandoned residential property at 20 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The section is covered with weeds and silt from liquefaction. 'HM' has been spray painted in green on the front wall of the house. The gutter has partly flooded.
A photograph of the site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel taken from Radio New Zealand House on Durham Street. The hotel has been demolished, leaving large piles of rubble which an excavator is working to clear.
Postgraduate studentwho went on an exchange to Oxford talking to Don Markwell, Warden of Rhodes House after the February earthquakes at a function with Vice Chancellor Rod Car and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford Andrew Hamilton to sign a Memorandum of Understand between the two Universities.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Eleven merged images of Christchurch looking south from the roof of the Ibis Hotel in Hereford Street".
A blog post from US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, David Huebner, titled, "Jim Kolbe Remembers February 22nd".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A big day of moving out of the caravan up the drive of their house to a rental home, for earthquake-stricken Kaiapoi mum and children. Tyler Entwistle (13) with boxes stacked in the caravan".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Family was frightened after the earthquake, but now Talia Atkins (12) on the left and Kendra Phillips (15), don't like even stepping foot back in their house after being burgled on Thursday".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Acland Ave and other nearby residents upset about houses that are green stickered being unliveable. They cannot access any relief funds. A meeting in the cul-de-sac where there are still piles of liquefaction".