Seismic Stories

A convoy of army vehicles travelling along an inland road. The vehicles are stationary, with a solider walking down the road towards the last truck in the convoy.

Two army transport vehicles travelling through Amberley, with large diesel generators.

A section of broken road, with a silver ute parked on the side of the road.

The top section of the Waiau War Memorial lying in pieces in the paddock. The steps at the base of the war memorial have been damaged from the falling masonry.

Damaged brickwork around a fireplace. A message is written on the brick wall "Don't leave your boots every where untidy", with a baseball cap hanging off a hook.

Members of the Amberley Building Operations team, standing in an office.

Two young children standing in a land fissure created during the earthquake. A large earth mover is parked at the top of the hill.

Three young boys standing in a land fissure, in Waiau. A large earth mover is parked at the top of the hill above where the children are standing.

Three young children standing on a section of uplifted land near a bridge. A man is supporting the arm of the youngest child.

A pile of bricks from a collapsed fireplace in the Montrose Station Homstead.

Pile of bricks from a collapsed fireplace, with the wooden mantelpiece lying on the floor in a room in the Montrose Homestead.

Members of the Crusaders Rugby team visiting the Hurunui district playing ball games with a group of children.

Damaged brick wall in the Montrose Homestead.

Earthquake damage to a ceiling of the Montrose Station Homestead.

View of the earthquake-damaged All Saints Anglican Church, in Waiau.

Close-up view of a damaged section of the All Saints Anglican Church in Waiau.

Collapsed brick chimney inside the kitchen area of the Whalesback Farm cottage. The room is filled with brick debris.

A damaged brick wall of a house on the Whalesback farm, with piles of bricks on the ground.

Exterior view of the earthquake damaged Montrose Homestead. A person is sitting on a park bench facing the front door of the homestead. Some windows on the right hand side of the house are boarded up...

View from the kitchen, through the dining room to the lounge of Whalesback Farm house. Broken glass and ceramics on the floor, including fallen photographs and pictures.

A landslip and damaged road at Whalesback Farm.

View of a damaged house at Mt Lyford. There are broken windows lying on the grass at the front of the house.

View of broken lead-light windows, taken from inside the Montrose Homestead. A farm vehicle can be seen parked outside the house.

A digger is clearing a landslide from a road on Whalesback Farm.