A photograph of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Montreal and Hereford Streets. There are large cracks between the windows.
A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office in a van. Out the window is an earthquake-damaged building.
A photograph of a damaged building next to Tony's Tyre Service on Armagh Street. Glass from the top window is missing.
A photograph of a crack that runs between two windows of the earthquake-damaged Wheki Building at the University of Canterbury.
A photograph submitted by Andy Palmer to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Shop window, London St, Lyttelton. 25 Feb 2012.".
A map and notes drawn on a window of the Inland Revenue building by rescuers involved in the CTV building rescue effort.
A map and notes drawn on a window of the Inland Revenue building by rescuers involved in the CTV building rescue effort.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Detail of 173 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a house with boarded-up windows. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Andrews Hill Road, Mount Pleasant".
A photograph of a red sticker notice on the window of 147 Hereford Street, indicating that the building is unsafe to enter.
A photograph of a building on Cashel Street. Some of the windows on the bottom floor have been boarded up with plywood.
A photograph of Liquidity bar on Oxford Terrace. The awning is bent and USAR codes have been spray-painted on the windows.
The eastern face of Christ Church Cathedral. The damaged windows have been boarded up. A shipping container sits in the overgrown garden.
Damage to a building on Manchester Street. The large diagonal cracks between the windows indicate the building has suffered serious structural damage.
Plywood sheeting covers a broken window in the Gallery Apartments building. On the wall in front is spray-painted "All off, water".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Old Civic Chamber on Manchester Street. The stained-glass window is still miraculously intact".
The "As Far as Eye Can See" artwork on display in a window of The Colombo shopping centre, viewed from Colombo Street.
The "As Far as Eye Can See" artwork on display in a window of The Colombo shopping centre, viewed from Colombo Street.
A photograph of Colombo Street taken through a car window. In the distance is the earthquake-damaged tower of ChristChurch Cathedral.
A photograph of cracks in the side of St Elmo Courts. The cracks have formed between the windows both horizontally and vertically.
A photograph of cracks in the front of St Elmo Courts. The cracks have formed between the windows both horizontally and vertically.
A photograph of a large crack in between two windows of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Montreal and Hereford Street.
The "As Far as Eye Can See" artwork on display in a window of The Colombo shopping centre, viewed from Colombo Street.
A close-up photograph of the top of the Rendezvous Hotel on Gloucester Street, showing cracks in the building and broken windows.
A photograph of Liquidity bar on Oxford Terrace. The awning is bent and USAR codes have been spray-painted on the windows.
A photograph of a large crack in between two windows of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Montreal and Hereford Street.
Plywood sheeting covers a broken window in the Gallery Apartments building. On the wall in front is spray-painted "All off, water".
Damage to Catholic Cathedral College. Stones and bricks have fallen from the parapets and gable ends of buildings, and windows are broken.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Christ Church Cathedral.
A photograph submitted by Sarndra to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Through the car window – damaged Lyttelton road tunnel control building. April 2011.".