A photograph of bricks forming a playing square of Christchurch: A Board Game. The bricks show a picture of ChristChurch Cathedral, and read, "ChristChurch Cathedral. Skip church, move to Ferry Rd".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Prime Minister John Key, centre, visited Christchurch after its 7.1 magnitude earthquake at 04:35 Saturday morning. Mayor Bob Parker, at right, took him on a tour of the city which was punctuated by a fire breaking out in a building on Worcester Street. MP John Carter, front left".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Brighton Community Preschool manager Paula Robinson checks out a box of toys and a special hand-made book for 'the children who know what it's like to be in a big earthquake'. It was sent from youngsters at Wintec early education centre in Waikato".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake stricken Canterbury today. Selwyn District Council put a BBQ lunch for their staff and the Governor-General during his visit to their Rolleston offices. Satyanand talks to building consent officer Jeffrey Gordon".
Today Dr Grant Morris talks to Jesse about the destruction of major settlements in New Zealand history. He's just returned from a trip to Christchurch where he saw a lot of what has been built since their devastating earthquakes and what still needs to be constructed. Today he looks back on two famous historic examples of New Zealand settlements that were partially destroyed by earthquakes.
One comprehensive emergency kit contained within a 68 litre heavy duty plastic storage case; includes four personal essentials packs, a survival first aid kit, an After Shake base pack and two 20 litre water storage canisters. Designed by the company After Shake to support a four person household following an emergency. This comprehensive emerg...
One trophy made from a can attached to a wooden base issued to SCIRT as a thank you for participating in Canstruction Christchurch. Features a custom printed label which celebrates teamwork in place of the usual nutritional information.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 7 December 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 26 June 2012.
Page 2 of Section C of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 30 June 2012.
Hopefully will be open again later this month - 25 months afer the February earthquake.
A view after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch 22 February 2011. Corner of Barbadoes and Kilmore Streets. So sad to see history die - both buildings and business.
A view after the 6.3 magnatude quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011. These buildings were demolished this afternoon 09 March 2011 - Gone!
It is hard to imagine the destruction which surrounds this area on such a beautiful clear calm sunny spring morning, It seems as if Christchuch has changed forever. I wonder how long it will take us to recover.
Someone wearing a Canterbury black and red rugby jersey holds onto two corners of a New Zealand flag which blows in the wind. There is no text in the cartoon. Context - On 22 February 2011 at 12:51 pm (NZDT), Christchurch experienced a major magnitude 6.3 earthquake, which resulted in severe damage and many casualties. A National State of Emergency has been declared. This followed on from an original magnitude 7.1 earthquake on 4 September 2010 which did far less damage and in which no-one died. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
Shows flowers at the Ellerslie Flowershow that represent various politicians. They are (from left) Mayor Bob Parker, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) chief executive Roger Sutton, Gerry Brownlee Minister of Earthquake recovery, Tony Marryatt, the Christchurch council chief executive, former Nelson mayor Kerry Marshall appointed Crown observer to oversee city council issues, Christchurch City Councillor Aaron Keown, and Deputy Mayor Ngaire Button. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
20131214_6268_1D3-24 Where once stood houses (Day 348/365) The area beside the lower Avon River in New Brighton of Evans Avenue and Admirals Way has been cleared of houses and boundary fences (there were between 15 and 20 houses on this block) , fully fenced with post and wire and "spray on" grass applied. These were all red zone properties a...
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake-stricken Canterbury today. Selwyn District Council put on a BBQ lunch for their staff and the Governor-General during his visit to their Rolleston offices. Satyanand and Selwyn District Mayor Kelvin Coe help themselves to lunch".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Christchurch was rocked by a large aftershock shortly after 8am this morning. Linemen cutting power to a damaged line outside an old historic building on the corner of Montreal Street and Moorhouse Avenue which will have work done to it to try and save as much as they can".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Christchurch was rocked by a large aftershock shortly before 8am this morning. Linemen cutting power to a damaged line outside an old historic building on the corner of Montreal Street and Moorhouse Avenue which will have work done to it to try and save as much as they can".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Christchurch was rocked by a large aftershock shortly after 8am this morning. Linemen cutting power to a damaged line outside an old historic building on the corner of Montreal Street and Moorhouse Avenue which will have work done to it to try and save as much as they can".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Christchurch was rocked by a large aftershock shortly after 8am this morning. Linemen cutting power to a damaged line outside an old historic building on the corner of Montreal Street and Moorhouse Avenue which will have work done to it to try and save as much as they can".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Zealand's Governor-General Anand Satyanand and his wife Susan Satyanand visited sites around earthquake stricken Canterbury today. Selwyn District Council put a BBQ lunch for their staff and the Governor-General during his visit to their Rolleston offices. Satyanand and Selwyn District mayor Kelvin Coe help themselves to lunch".
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 December 2012.
Revisiting some of my images coming up to our one year anniversary of the 22 February 2011 Christchurch 6.3 earthquake.
Moving from the Bexley "Red Zone" to?
These have been thrown in the Avon River
Houses teeter over the edge above Redcliffs School.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch families have come to Timaru to get away from the aftershocks (L-R) Henry Robertson (3 years), Joanne Byrne holding her son Frankie Mallia (18 months), Sarah Mallia holding her 12 week son Edward Robertson, Harriet Mallia (3 years), Naomi Cooke holding her son Zeb Meyer-Cooke (17 months) and Jonti Meyer Cooke (4 years)".
This study updated and superseded Earthquake hazard and risk assessment study Stage 1 Part A: Earthquake source identification and characterisation (Pettinga et al, 1998). It compiled and tabulated all relevant available information on earthquake sources in Canterbury and updated the active faults database with new fault locations and information. See Object Overview for background and usage information.