
Digital 'basket' for collecting the community's stories, photos, and experiences of the Canterbury earthquake on Sept. 4, 2010, and the Christchurch earthquake on February 22, 2011.
The basement of a building in Kaiapoi, the ceiling collapsed in the corner. The top two stories of the building were structurally compromised and have been demolished.
Two taxi drivers have spoken out for the first time about their brush with death when they narrowly escaped falling rubble during the Canterbury Earthquake.
The Waimakariri District Libraries site. Collects material about the damaged landmarks in Kaiapoi - their history and future and a collection of stories about the earthquake and share memories and photos.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Xavier Trousselot Rhodes sporting injuries from a fall from his bedroom on the top story of the Hororata Homestead in Canterbury during the earthquake on Saturday morning".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Jennifer Savage and Andrew Dutton were booked to be married in the St Johns Church in Latimer Square that was damaged in the earthquake. Rebecca Todd story".
The Christchurch earthquake was obviously a huge story this year, and for one couple it will always be particularly memorable. Christchurch lawyer Katherine Ewer and her husband David got married that day.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "2010 Canterbury Earthquake. Story to do with grants for people without water and sewage. Miriam O'Malley waits to use a portaloo outside her house on Maling Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Risk revealed: Ten years ago the Northern Outlook printed a front page story about possible damage from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the land between the Ashley and Waimakariri rivers".
A video of interviews with Christchurch children about their experiences during the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The children are being interviewed on Colombo Street in Beckenham.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "2010 Canterbury Earthquake. Story to do with grants for people without water and sewage. Miriam O'Malley uses a portaloo outside her house on Maling Street. Daniella O'Malley is on left".
No progress has been made on clearing the debris from Blackwell's Department Store on Williams Street. During the earthquake, the top story of the building collapsed into the bottom, as well as the awning into the street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Trudy Mclean, owner of Groovy Glasses Ltd. Story about her business which had to shift after the September 4 M7.1 Christchurch earthquake has been doing really well at their new location".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Trudy Mclean, owner of Groovy Glasses Ltd. Story about her business which had to shift after the September 4 M7.1 Christchurch earthquake has been doing really well at their new location".
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.
When I lived in Christchurch back in 2004-2005, this was a building I went past on the bus every day to get to and from work in the city. After the big quake on 04/09/10 (7.1 magnitude), its been seriously damaged. As have many more of the shops in this area. Thankfully no lives were lost in the quake, and I'm glad I wasnt there to feel it eith...