Large cracks in the playing field in Porrit Park are surrounded by "volcanoes" of liquefaction silt.
A large crack in the playing field in Porrit Park.
People walk along Tuam Street carrying bags and boxes. Brick dust covers the street where fallen bricks have been cleared, and on the left emergency tapes cordons off Manchester Street. The photographer comments, "This was taken shortly after the 4th September earthquake. Police allowed us free access past the cordon and simply advised us to watch out for falling masonry. The access situation was much different after the February aftershock".
Detail of a building on Tuam Street. A large crack runs down the side of the building where the facade has separated.
A view looking west down Tuam Street across the High Street intersection. Road cones line the street. The photographer comments, "This was taken shortly after the 4th September earthquake. Police allowed us free access past the cordon and simply advised us to watch out for falling masonry. The access situation was much different after the February aftershock".
Damaged buildings on Manchester Street, seen from the Tuam Street intersection. Police emergency tape cordons off the street. The photographer comments, "This was taken shortly after the 4th September earthquake. Police allowed us free access past the cordon and simply advised us to watch out for falling masonry. The access situation was much different after the February aftershock".
A water-damaged desk and computer in an office where overhead sprinklers were triggered by the earthquakes.
Mark Lincoln, wearing a climbing harness, poses with Fire Service personnel. In the background, two people demolish a chimney.
A man pokes his head through a hole in a damaged tile roof on Kerrs Road.
A large crack in the playing field in Porrit Park is surrounded by "volcanoes" of liquefaction silt.
Damage to a wharf in Lyttelton. The piles of the wharf are on a lean, as is the signal light.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Churchills Pub on the corner of Colombo and Battersea Streets. The top of the façade has crumbled into the street below, bringing the awnings down with it. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
A photograph of an earthquake-damaged shop on the corner of Manchester Street and Struthers Lane, near Sol Square.
A photograph of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers photographed from across Oxford Terrace.
A large crack runs across the playground on the corner of Peraki and Fuller Streets in Kaiapoi.
A photograph of an office in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Peraki Street in Kaiapoi, near the railway level crossing. The road and footpath surfaces are cracked and buckled.
Cracks in the road and liquefaction at the intersection of Rich and Hilton Streets in Kaiapoi. Some of the liqufaction has been dug out of properties and placed in piles on the side of the road.
Liquefaction silt and cracking in a paddock near Kaiapoi.
A photograph of a structure in the estuary.
A photograph of a row of stores on Oxford Street in Lyttelton which have been cordoned off with wire fencing and police tape.
A photograph of damaged land near River Road in Lincoln.
A photograph of a crane parked next to the Knox Church on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street.
A tarpaulin covers the damaged gable end of a building on Hereford Street.
A photograph of people sitting outside the Design Café in New Regent Street.
Damage to the Blackwells building in Kaiapoi. Part of the facade has collapsed onto the street below. In the foreground is the War Memorial.
A photograph of liquefaction emerging from freshly-harrowed soil on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
Sightseers inspect the damage to a road which buckled during the earthquake, leaving a series of large cracks across the tarmac.
A photograph of an earthquake-damaged shop on the corner of Manchester Street and Struthers Lane, near Sol Square.
A photograph of a rotary hoe being used during soil remediation experiments on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.