A photograph of the collapsed Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. Tape has been draped around the building as a cordon.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Back of collapsed PGG building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "205-209 Manchester Street. The collapsed building in front has already been removed".
A photograph of the damaged Lyttelton Times building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Norwich Quay, Lyttelton".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers emerging from Te Waipounamu House, a building under demolition on Hereford Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Union Centre Building on the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets".
A photograph of a damaged building in Lyttelton. "Owner call [phone number]" has been spray painted on the fence.
A damaged house in Clifton, protected by tarpaulins. A pile of building rubble lies in front of the house.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue team taking a break from working on the CTV Building site.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of a demolished building at 6-8 London Street, Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Back of collapsed PGG building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Back of collapsed PGG building".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The side view of the McKenzie & Willis building on Tuam Street".
A cliff above Redcliffs. Above it is a breeze-block building with broken windows and cracks in its masonry.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "LPG bottles on the footpath (205 Gloucester Street) salvaged from the TVNZ building".
The demolition site of St Elmo Courts at 47 Hereford Street. The City Council Building is now visible behind.
A photograph of the Hutchinson Ford car yard on Tuam Street. Damage can be seen to the building's facade.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A partially-demolished building on the corner of Colombo and Gloucester Streets".
Members of the Senior Management Team about to be guided around the temporary building work on the Ilam Oval.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Back of collapsed PGG building".
Cordon fencing surrounds damaged buildings on Colombo Street. The photographer comments, "A bike ride around the CBD. Colombo St".
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
A triangular empty site left after the demolition of a building on the corner of Victoria and Salisbury Streets.
An empty site left by the demolition of a building on the corner of Victoria Street and Bealey Avenue.
An empty site left by the demolition of a building on the corner of Victoria Street and Bealey Avenue.
Members of the New Zealand Police lifting a dog in a harness through the window of a damaged building.
Photo taken Jan 2011 - the cracks in the front of the building get a little bigger with each aftershock.
The sequence of earthquakes that has greatly affected Christchurch and Canterbury since September 2010 has again demonstrated the need for seismic retrofit of heritage unreinforced masonry buildings. Commencing in April 2011, the damage to unreinforced stone masonry buildings in Christchurch was assessed and recorded with the primary objective being to document the seismic performance of these structures, recognising that they constitute an important component of New Zealand’s heritage architecture. A damage statistics database was compiled by combining the results of safety evaluation placarding and post-earthquake inspections, and it was determined that the damage observed was consistent with observations previously made on the seismic performance of stone masonry structures in large earthquakes. Details are also given on typical building characteristics and on failure modes observed. Suggestions on appropriate seismic retrofit and remediation techniques are presented, in relation also to strengthening interventions that are typical for similar unreinforced stone masonry structures in Europe.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Provincial Council Chambers, Durham Street".