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Christchurch Earthquake - Ready to Rubble

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A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch. Community of the Sacred Name, cnr St Asaph and Barbadoes Streets, on St Asaph St looking east

Beyond the Fence

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One Month after the Christchurch Earthquake. A view in Sydenham suburb - Columbo St Twitter | Facebook | My Website |

Sydenham Building

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A corner shop in Sydenham - a Suburb of Christchurch. Front walls are all missing Twitter | Facebook | My Website |

Taped

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The twisted and buckled bridge over the river. View looking down the bridge. Damaged from the Christchurch Earthquake Twitter | Facebook |

Manchester Courts Building Top Cracks

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Very sad - was a nice looking building. This is near the top of the building and there is signs of the top being displaced horizontally.

Destruction

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Rolleston/Burnham, South Island, NZ This used to be a perfectly straight and flat road!

Christchurch Earthquake - Rubbled

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After the demolition - ex-Thom Autoglass building south-east corner St Asaph St and Barbadoes Street

Shops in Opawa Road

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Shops in Opawa Road

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Shops in Opawa Road

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Mollett Street

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Behind Shops in Colombo Street PWS-2010-10-02-DSC03087

Getting Smaller

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Demolition underway on the old Government Life building on a walk around the city September 7, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.

Otautahi Christchurch Red Zone foraging

Urban forager and food writer, Liv Sisson finds all sorts of tasty treats in the Otautahi city centre.With some of the housing and buildings destroyed in the earthquakes, a rewilding has taken place providing a range of edible plants. Liv Sisson gathers produce thriving on berms and near the Avon River.

Henry Allison's Red Zone video - Part 1

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Part 1 of a video contributed by Henry Allison, a participant in the Understanding Place research project. The video has the description "Henry Allison talks about his experiences at the brewery on St Asaph Street during the earthquakes, and about the architecture that was lost in the central city".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 151

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The food caravans that used to operate in the Arts Centre, now travel to several places in the city. Here they are in the quad at Canterbury University with the lunchtime queues".

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 259

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A photograph of a flower in a road cone at the University of Canterbury. On the anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake, people were encouraged to place flowers in road cones as a way of honouring those who lost their lives during the earthquake.

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A red-stickered building on Canterbury Street in Lyttelton. The building's facade has been propped up with timber, steel and concrete block bracing, and one of its windows has been weather proofed with plywood. Wire fencing has been place around the building as a cordon.

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Extensive damage caused by liquefaction in Bracken Street, Avonside. A pile of liquefaction can be seen in front of this house. After the earthquake, many people had to dig this silt out of their properties and place it on the road to be collected.

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A collapsed brick wall on Halswell Junction Road. A stack of bricks have been saved by the tree which has grown in a curve and is resting on the wall, holding the bricks in place. A pile of bricks can be seen on the ground where they fell.

Twice Fallen

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A digitally manipulated image of a fallen headstone. The photographer comments, "Since the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand a lot of the headstones have fallen, but sadly a lot have not been resurrected to their former places".

Natalie Kerschner WEMO Photograph 080

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A photograph of cracking in the footpath along Gayhurst Road, where the pavement has lifted in places and sunk inwards in others. A road cone has been placed on top of the uneven pavement to warn people. A portaloo can be seen in the background.

All Right? Five Years On I Feel: Community 16

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A photograph of Shane from Shirley taking part in #FiveYearsOn. Shane holds a sign which reads, "Five years on, I feel... I'm in a grate Place with all the thing what are happing [sic] for me".

Christchurch Mail Image: Luke Thomas 2010:10:05 14:29:16

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A Cashmere man has taken it upon himself to secure his home chimney with planks and ties. Dave McKenzie and his family retreated to underneath a beam in their house thinking it was the safest place".

Under the Fale Photograph 2013:10:26 (1)

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A close-up photograph of two conch shells, which will be used during Under the Fale. Under the Fale was organised by Pacific Underground and took place as part of Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 69

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A photograph of emergency management personnel examining a building on New Regent Street. Pavers on either side of the tramline have risen and shifted out of place. Many tables and chairs from cafes and restaurants are still sitting outside.