An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 19 January 2014 entitled, "Nostalgic Narrative".
A story submitted by Catherine Lee Clarke to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Linda Grainger to the QuakeStories website.
A digitally manipulated photograph of the sign for the Boulevarde restaurant. The photographer comments, "The title is very appropriate as this restaurant was closed after the February Christchurch earthquake. The area has been cordoned off for ages now and everything will probably be demolished.
A photograph of signs on the windows of the Christchurch Art Gallery. The art gallery was used as the temporary Civil Defence headquarters after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The signs read, "Today is Thursday 3 March 2011" and "Wash your hands!". In the background, emergency management personnel and a New Zealand Fire Service truck can be seen.
A photograph of a paste-up on an earthquake-damaged brick wall. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 7 July 2013 entitled, "Winter weekends".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 25 August 2014 entitled, "Tohoku 2011".
A story submitted by Rosalee Jenkin to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 December 2011 entitled, "Scenes in Sumner".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 February 2012 entitled, "Quakes and Quietude".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 7 February 2012 entitled, "It Makes Me Want to Sing".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Art Gallery Apartments on Gloucester Street. Both windows on the second floor of the building are broken. USAR codes have been spray painted on one of the bottom-storey windows.
A billboard on the side of the Christchurch Town Hall advertises a performance by Santana on Tuesday 22 March 2011. The photographer comments, "Due to the earthquake the previous month Carlos Santana cancelled the concert. He did return though for a concert on 17 March 2013".
Broken panelling on a building on Colombo Street has exposed the interior of the walls. The photographer comments, "Seen in the Christchurch Earthquake Red Zone. If you saw this anywhere else in the world you would have thought that it was a piece of modern art".
Grass growing through liquefaction silt in Avondale. The photographer comments, "Although this grass seems to be growing on the liquefaction created by the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, they are actually only growing through it. Nothing seems to grow even though seeds will sprout almost anywhere else. The seeds are growing in the soil which got covered up by the liquefaction. If liquefaction gets mixed with even a little soil then nature can get a foothold".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 13 September 2010 entitled, "A Week of Wonders".
A story submitted by Lyndsay Fenwick to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 22 February 2012 entitled, "Loss of Lives, Livelihood and Living".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 3 June 2012 entitled, "Grubb Cottage Gets the Warm Fuzzies".
Graffiti on a damaged building. The photographer comments, "They should have painted four leaf clover, if they wanted this tagging to survive the demolition of the earthquake damaged Ozone in Christchurch
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 10 December 2011 entitled, "Here be sparkles".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 9 September 2010 entitled, "In the wake of the quake".
A story submitted by Peter Low to the QuakeStories website.
Two diggers on top of a pile of rubble inside the partially demolished Ozone Dressing Sheds building. The photographer comments, "The Ozone must have suffered in the February earthquake more than people thought. They were starting to repaint it inside, but it looks like they must have run out of filler".
A video of an interview with Mayor Bob Parker, recorded at the Civil Defence Headquarters in the Christchurch Art Gallery on the evening of the 22 February 2011. Parker talks about the fatalities and damage caused by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A 'sand volcano' of liquefaction silt. The photograph has been rotated 180 degrees. The photographer comments, "This could be just a horrible hole caused by liquefaction pouring out of a hole after the Christchurch earthquake in January, but turn it upside down and it becomes an outcrop on the floor of an unseen tidal estuary".
A photograph of a paste-up on the wall of the earthquake-damaged Knox Church. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".
A photograph of a paste-up on the wall of the earthquake-damaged Knox Church. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".
A photograph of a paste-up on the wall of the earthquake-damaged Knox Church. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".