Scenes of firefighters preparing to board the container ship, Spirit of Competition at Lyttelton Harbour.
Aaron Howell of the Otago Fish and Game Society with an 8kg brown trout supplied by the society's hatchery in Wanaka for display at the Southern Encounter Aquarium of Discovery in Cathedral Square.
A firefighter clearing away an acid spill from a truck at the Sockburn roundabout.
Three generations of the Edmonds family at the Thomas Edmonds Restaurant, in the Thomas Edmonds band rotunda on Cambridge Terrace. Pictured (from left) are Ray Edmonds, his granddaughter, Miriam...
The northwest corner with the start of Chancery Lane under the bright white light. The Tivoli theatre was a huge cinema. The building to the left was later the site of the AMP building, and the one to...
Emergency management personnel in the Operations Centre at the Christchurch Art Gallery Civil Defence HQ after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Irony of the current exhibition title at the Christchurch Art gallery when the 22 February 2011 earthquake struck.
Catering staff at the Temporary Emergency Management Centre at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Staff working in the foyer of the Temporary Emergency Management Centre at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Stranded vehicles in the Farmers carpark building.
Liquefaction, near the Avon river in Riccarton.
Footpath slumping near the intersection of Deans Avenue and Fendalton Road.
Bridge approach slumping at Helmores Lane.
Vehicle damaged by falling masonry and relocated to outside of a Merivale property.
Damaged gable and roof on the former Canterbury Public Library Building, 107 - 109 Cambridge Terrace.
Masonry gable collapsed from the former Canterbury Public Library Building, 107 - 109 Cambridge Terrace, Former Children's Library, and the Christchurch City Council building.
Stabilised building and damaged masonry on 86 Hereford Street.
Emergency management staff returning to the office after inspecting buildings. Walking past the collapsed Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings on Durham Street.
Collapsed Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings on Durham Street
Damaged buildings on the corner of Gloucester and Manchester Streets.
Pavement damage along tram tracks in New Regent Street.
Window damage in Bob Brown's corner of Armagh and Manchester Streets.
Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, damage also suffered in an earthquake a few months earlier.