Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "205 Manchester Street across the cleared site of 207".
A cleared building site on the corner of Oxford Street and London Street in Lyttelton.
A digger being used to clear the rubble from the Convention Centre on Peterborough Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of shops on Colombo Street near the intersection of Kilmore Street. Large sections of the top storeys of the buildings have collapsed. Most of the bricks and other rubble have been cleared from the footpath. USAR codes have been spray-painted on many of the shops' windows. The closest store has been demolished and the rubble has been cleared away.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "London Street showing the cleared site of the Empire Hotel".
A photograph of a cleared site. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Papanui Road".
Ferry Road in Ferry Road. Liquefaction silt has been partly cleared from the road, but many traces remain.
Fallen stonework and bricks at the base of a wall. A spray-painted sign reads "Danger!!! Wall unstable, stay clear".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The almost clear site of the Brannigans Building on Oxford Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall looking towards the Whitcoulls site and the BNZ in the distance behind the centre tree".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street with the Heritage Hotel on Worcester Street at the rear left".
A photograph submitted by Andy Palmer to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Cleared site, CBD. 26 Feb 2012.".
A photograph of St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square, seen across a cleared site on Cashel Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library with the books now cleared off the floor in this part".
A long line of cars on Shirley Road. While the centre of the road is clear, there is flooding and liquefaction along the edges.
Damage to a residential property on Birch Street. Writing on door reads "all clear" with name and telephone numbers.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library with the books now cleared off the floor in this part".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "looking across the almost clear site of the Convention Centre towards the Town Hall".
Diggers work to clear the rubble from a demolished building on Victoria Street. The Victoria Clock Tower can be seen in the distance.
A pile of liquefaction silt on the side of a street in Richmond. The photographer comments, "Liquefaction silt took several weeks to be cleared away".
A photograph of a member of an emergency management team standing in the middle of the intersection of Manchester, High, and Lichfield Streets. In the background an excavator is sitting on top of a pile of rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings. Other emergency management personnel are also standing on the corner of High and Manchester Streets. Behind the excavator another excavator is working to clear rubble. To the right there is a block of earthquake-damaged buildings and more building rubble to be cleared.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Piles of silt on Flemington Avenue in North New Brighton, cleared from residents' gardens".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The entire north side of Tuam Street from High Street to Madras Street which is now clear ground".
A sign reading, "For sale by tender" outside an empty lot on Manchester Street. A building has been demolished and cleared from the site.
An empty lot on the corner of Barbadoes Street and St Asaph Street. A building has been demolished and cleared from the site.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A pile of rubble on the back corner of the cleared site at 44 London Street in Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The entire north side of Tuam Street from High Street to Madras Street which is now clear ground".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "248 High Street partly cleared away - this building has been in ruins since February 22, 2011".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Gap Filler project on the cleared site of the Starlight Theatre in London Street, Lyttelton".
A digger being used to clear the rubble from the Convention Centre on Peterborough Street. In the background, the Town Hall can be seen.