Boxing Day Quake. Are you here about the earthquake?

09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake cracked, house wall, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Wood braced, quake tilted, house wall, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be more damaged by the 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Wood braced, quake tilted, house wall, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be more damaged by the 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, Linwood Community bldg, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Linwood Community bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake, but would be restored


09.02.11. Under The Red Verandah restaurant, undamaged by the Sept 4 quake, Worcester St / Tancred St. Bldg & back bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake. Main restaurant bldg would be demolished


09.02.11. Under The Red Verandah restaurant, undamaged by the Sept 4 quake, Tancred St / Worcester St. Bldg would be damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Side parapet collapsed into next door shop, quake damaged bldgs, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Right bldg would be severely damaged by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake, facade leaning forward & side wall peeled off. Bldgs would be demolished


09.02.11. Side parapet collapsed into next door shop, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Shop window view, next door parapet collapsed into shop, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Next door side parapet collapsed into shop, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished

09.02.11. Christchurch CBD east focus. Hereford St: I wanted to see 04.09.10, M7.1 Darfield Quake damage & Boxing Day Quake damage, by trekking an inner city circuit: Hereford St, Stanmore Rd, Worcester St to Latimer Sq, Madras St, detouring along Lichfield St & Barbadoes St back to Hereford St. My circuit passed shabby, old, quake damaged houses & newer, upmarket houses, undamaged, especially in Hereford St & Worcester St.


09.02.11. Quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned bldgs, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. 2 people would die in Wicks Fish during that quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged bldgs, steel mesh fence cordoned walkway in street, Stanmore Rd / Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. 2 people would die in Wicks Fish during that quake


09.02.11. Signs, steel mesh fence cordon, quake damaged bldg, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. 2 people would die in Wicks Fish during that quake


09.02.11. Wicks Fish, Cultural Festival signs, steel mesh fence cordon, Worcester St / Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. 2 people would die in Wicks Fish during that quake


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon, N view, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Red stickered, closed Visions, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Hibbards Butchery, relocation sign, steel mesh fence cordon, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Dairy relocation sign, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon, S view, Stanmore Rd to Worcester St & Port Hills, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished

We knew sections of Stanmore Rd & Worcester St well: In the mornings, after I dropped Luke off at Sullivan Ave tech, I drove Stanmore Rd / Worcester St crossing, badly damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, closed, relocated shops. Off Stanmore Rd, Leah taught at Jean Seabrook Memorial School, London St.

Worcester St / Stanmore Rd crossing: Steel mesh fence cordon sign:

MULTI CULTURAL
FESTIVAL

LINWOOD COMMUNITY
ARTS CENTRE

DORIS LUSK
RESERVE

SATURDAY
FEB 19th

Examples of shop relocation, business as usual signs on the steel mesh fence cordon:

HIBBARDS BUTCHERY
NOW OPEN
387 WORCESTER

CHEMIST
OPEN

WICKS FISH LTD
FRESH AND
SMOKED FISH

Many of the ghost shops were steel mesh fence cordoned. E side of the crossing, Whiteware & Furniture, a 2 storey, side wall, brick parapet had toppled into a 1 storey shop, roof collapsed. W side of the crossing, 1 storey Wicks Fish carried on business as usual, a neighbour's 2 storey $4 Shop also open, but tarped for months, a side wall, brick parapet teetering over Wicks Fish. Yet, after Council & EQC inspections, business continued as usual in Wicks Fish & next door $4 Shop & Lakes Chemist, despite the parapet collapse warning down the road. Two people would be killed by the 22.02.11 quake in Wicks Fish. No one in Council nor EQC would be held responsible for pseudo inspections between Sept 4 Darfield Quake & Feb 22 Killer Quake.

But a public Memorial Service in Hagley Park would invite prince William for fans, with media hype about quake heroes, firemen, USAR / TF, cops. A Royal Commission of Inquiry & a Coroner's Inquest  would inform grieving families. But expediently contrite culprits, long faced engineers, apologetic cops knew there would be little accountability.

Council would quickly produce a Memorial Cemetery for unfound (crushed, incinerated) quake victims in Avonhead Cemetery, walking distance from our Burnside home. For 2 years post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, there would be annual memorial services, photo ops for local & NZ govt politicians, National & Labour. It would be 6 years before a permanent Memorial Wall for Feb 22 Killer Quake victims would be made beside Avon River by Montreal St Bridge.

Worcester St / Tancred St: Jake worked at Under The Red Verandah restaurant. None of the bldgs we were associated with were quake damaged. So far. In the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, an Under The Red Verandah bldg would collapse next to Jake. Further down Worcester St, two people would be killed by the 22.02.11 quake collapsed Wicks Fish. Why did authorities dither about demolitions post 04.09.10 Darfield Quake?

Stanmore Rd: Both roadsides, several old, brick, 2 storey ghosts & ghost shops, steel mesh cordoned, like The Argonaut. Opp side of the street, 2 storey, brick, side wall collapsed, ghost shops steel mesh fence cordoned.


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, The Argonaut, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. The Argonaut would collapse in the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & would be demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, relocated Visions, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordons, quake damaged bldgs obstructing traffic, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon, S view, Stanmore Rd, more steel mesh fence cordoned bldgs, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh cordoned, quake damaged bldgs, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged bldgs, brick, side wall collapsed, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, brick, side wall collapsed, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3 magnitude, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Mind the gap! Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged bldgs, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, quake damaged bldg causing Visions & Hibbards Butchery relocations, Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. $4 Shop & Lakes Chemists open, despite quake damaged bldg & tarps, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Two people would be killed by the 22.02.11 quake in Wicks Fish, when a side wall, brick parapet collapsed onto Wicks Fish roof


09.02.11. Worcester St, E view, quake damaged, roof tarped shop & steel mesh fence cordon on Stanmore Rd, 5 months post Sept quake. Bldgs would be trashed by the M6.3, 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Two people would be killed by the 22.02.11 quake in Wicks Fish

Worcester St: "Are you here about the earthquake?" asked a grey haired woman, while I coolpixed her quake damaged house. She was peeved, waiting more than 5 months post Sept 4 Darfield Quake for an insurance assessor to assess her house. Nearby were several quake damaged, 1-2 storey, weatherboard houses, some being repaired. Others were trashed, either uninsured, or awaiting slow repairs. One wooden house had quake shattered, brick chimneys both sides of the iron roof. The chimneys had teetered for 5 months, awaiting doomsday. Another house chimney, black plastic wrapped. 2 storey, wooden house, brick chimney separated from the wall.

Worcester St / Fitzgerald Ave: 1 storey Avenue Dairy open. 1 storey Hair City closed, steel mesh cordoned.

Across Fitzgerald Ave, Worcester St: Another 2 storey house, brick parapet, black plastic wrapped. Semi detached, 2 storey wooden houses, wood boarded / braced, brick firewall. 1 storey house, cracked sidewall, brick parapet.


09.02.11. Quake damaged roof, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimney, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Tarped, quake damaged chimney, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Black plastic wrapped, quake damaged chimney, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Brick chimney, quake separated from wooden, house wall, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Brick chimney, quake separated from wooden, house wall, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, closed Hair City, next to open Avenue Dairy, Worcester St / Fitzgerald Ave, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Both shops would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Black plastic covered, brick parapet damage, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimneys, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Steel / wood braced house, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11 Quake damaged, house wall, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged, house wall & pedestrians, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

Worcester St / Barbadoes St: Steel mesh fence cordoned, 2 storey, semi detached, wooden house, tiled roof, 2 chimneys gone. Roof trusses exposed. Repairs to back of house. Side wall scaffolded. Next door, 2 more 2 storey wooden houses, chimneys gone, iron roofs patched, brick parapet gone.


09.02.11. Quake damaged roof, Worcester St / Barbadoes St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Wooden house repair, Barbadoes St / Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon signs, quake damaged houses, Worcester St / Barbadoes St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11. quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged roof, scaffolded wooden house, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Scaffolded house would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged roofs & brick parapet, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged roof, brick parapet, Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake demolition site, Worcester St / Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Hotel Grand Chancellor beyond Latimer Sq would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. Grand Central Building would rise on site


09.02.11. Quake demolition site, Latimer Sq / Worcester St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

Worcester St / Latimer Sq: Empty demolition site, part steel fence cordoned.

Hereford St / Madras St: Steel mesh fence cordoned, St Johns Anglican Church ghost, roof patched. Greystone, belfry tower kaput. Greystone, rubble heaps. Weeds, leaves, overgrown grass. N transept gable & rose window boarded. Greystone nave, N green door, red stickered, gable stones fallen. Nave W wall, steel braced, Madras St side. (St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, demolished. Shigaru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site). Steel mesh fence cordoned, next door brick ghost, roof boarded, brick gable toppled. Post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, the brick ghost would be demolished for the Cardboard Cathedral.


09.02.11. Quake damaged, roof patched, St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Roof patches & quake damaged belfry tower, St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. N transept, boarded window & gable, St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Quake damaged, St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon, red stickered N door, fallen gable stones St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel braced, nave W wall, St Johns Anglican Church, Latimer Sq, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Madras St view, steel braced, nave W wall, St Johns Anglican Church, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel braced, nave W wall, St Johns Anglican Church, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Johns would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, St Johns Anglican Church bldg, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. The bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned & roof patched St Johns Anglican Church bldg, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. The bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned & roof patched St Johns Anglican Church bldg, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. The bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake. The Cardboard Cathedral would be built on site

Madras St: I trekked past Arrow House & CTV multi-storey, not knowing CTV would collapse & burn in the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, killing 115 people. CTV & Arrow House would be demolished post 22.02.11 Killer Quake. 2019. Liverpool Terraces would rise on Arrow House demo site.

Madras St / Cashel St crossing: Diag opp CTV, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church ghost was scaffolded, being repaired. One dome black plastic tarped. St Pauls would be trashed by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, demolished.


09.02.11. Fence cordoned, scaffolded, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, Madras St / Cashel St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Pauls would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Fence cordoned, scaffolded, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, Cashel St / Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Pauls would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Fence cordon entrance to scaffolded, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, Cashel St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Pauls would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Fence cordoned, scaffolded, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. St Pauls would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished

Madras St / Bedford Row: Serial quake damaged, old stable ghost. The old, brick stable would be more damaged by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake. Heritage hailers would want to save the old stable, 7 months post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, despite 115 people killed a block away in the collapsed CTV. The old, brick stable would be demolished.


09.02.11. Roof tarped, quake damaged, old stable, Madras St / Bedford Row, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Old, brick stable would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Madras St, N view, scaffolded, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, 5 months post Sept 4 Killer Quake. St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished

Madras St / Lichfield St: Apex car rentals ghost, steel mesh fence cordoned. Apex car rentals would be demolished post 22.02.11 Killer Quake.


09.02.11. Madras St / Lichfield St crossing, S view, steel mesh fence cordoned, apex car rentals, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Apex car rentals would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake

Lichfield St: 3 storey, John Burns & Co ghost, steel mesh fence cordoned, obstructing traffic. John Burns would be demolished post 22.02.11 Killer Quake.


09.02.11. Roof tarped, quake damaged brick bldg, Madras St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordon obstructing traffic, quake damaged John Burns & Co, Lichfield St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. John Burns bldg would be demolished post 22.02.11 quake

Barbadoes St / Cashel St: 3 storey, Provincial Hotel ghost, scaffolded, steel mesh fence cordoned. Provincial Hotel would be trashed by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, demolished.


09.02.11. Back yard view, quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned, scaffolded, Provincial Hotel, Barbadoes St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Provincial Hotel would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, scaffolded Provincial Hotel, Barbadoes St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Provincial Hotel would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished


09.02.11. Steel mesh fence cordoned, scaffolded Provincial Hotel, Barbadoes St / Cashel St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake. Provincial Hotel would be trashed by the 22.02.11 quake & demolished

During my circuit, 5 months post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, I saw many collapsed walls, parapets, crushed roofs; patch repaired roads, bldgs; damaged, tarped chimneys; roof patches after chimney demolitions; tarped roofs; walls braced by wood, or steel, or both; boarded roofs, walls, windows; demolition sites; rubble; closed shops; scaffolded bldgs; fence cordoned bldgs; obstructed pedestrian & vehicle traffic.

Hereford St: Tilted power pole. Several damaged brick chimneys, 1 clear plastic wrapped, awaiting demolition on house roofs. 2 storey house, wood braced, brick parapet.


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimneys, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimneys, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

The Press, 09.02.11, EQC report:

"As at yesterday, EQC had completed or was close to completing assessments for 60 percent of all claims and had paid out just over $700 million."


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimney, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

"And claims continue to be lodged at a rate of hundreds a day. We have received 1 209 additional claims since last Friday, most for damage from the Boxing Day aftershock."


09.02.11. Quake damaged chimney, Hereford St, 5 months post Set 4 quake

"Even so, we are on track to complete all assessments by late March. [Rebuilding would take much longer. EQC's own deadline for the 20 January Aftershock was 20 April!] We have 250 teams in the field at present working 6 days a week and we are confident that we will get through the claims by then. A team comprises a loss adjuster and an estimator working in tandem." [EQC's loss adjusters had only 3 days' training!]


09.02.11. Quake tilted, power pole, quake bent house, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

"Our project manager, Fletcher Construction, has the repair of properties with damage in the around $10 000 to $100 000 bracket well underway. In the coming months EQC and Fletchers will be concentrating on houses with weather tightness issues and those that have lost their sole source of heating. We need to ensure all claimants with building damage go into winter with a property that is warm and dry." [Wishful thinking].


09.02.11. Clear, plastic wrapped chimney, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake


09.02.11. Quake damaged houses, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

"EQC's total exposures i.e. the combination of contents, building and land claims is 244 089. What we list as a single claim may very well compose sub-claims for contents, buildings and land, [total 178 454 claims at 8 Feb] each of which tend to be dealt with separately."


09.02.11. Wood braced, brick parapet, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

"It is similar with payments. Often a single claim will require multiple payments [& time gobbling bumbling]. To date we have made a total of 112 099 payments at a total of $700 million. Given that we estimate the final cost to us as somewhere between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion, there is obviously a long way to go."


09.02.11. Kiwihouse backpacker hostel & roof repair, Hereford St, 5 months post Sept 4 quake

EQC's reported stats showed EQC had 39 031 claims completed out of a total 178 454 claims at 8 Feb. Therefore only 21.87% claims were completed by 8 Feb. More than 5 months post quake, I saw next to no rebuilds during my trekking around quake shattered Christchurch.

10.02.11. Thursday 4.16pm, M4.0 aftershock, 9km depth, 20km W of Christchurch. (GeoNet). It grumbled, shuddered while I drank my afternoon tea. Spooked our cat, ears back, fled our lounge.

The Press, 11.02.11, reported that since the Sept 4 Darfield Quake there'd been over 10 000 aftershocks with a cumulative 3 hours' shaking. Over the past week, MP Brownlee, mayor Parker, others jabbered that rebuilding Christchurch's & Lyttelton's quake damaged infrastructure & rehabilitating damaged land would take a long time.

The 10 000 aftershocks tally was moot, as a year later the 10 000 quakes total would still be quoted. Never mind 1 000s of quakes in between.

None took responsibility for planning & building pre quake infrastructure & bldgs by shores, rivers, estuaries, lakes, swamps, springs, where massive destruction happened. Although a grand scheme was planned to build underground dams consisting of wooden & concrete piles, against future liquefaction damage, there were no guarantees the dams would work. One of the first bits of quake damage I'd seen on Sept 4 Darfield Quake was a wooden power pole snapped at ground level on Grahams Rd. Never mind quaked, pile failures, Lyttelton Harbour wharfs.

*Trekked Hereford St, Stanmore Rd, Worcester St, Latimer Sq, Madras St, Lichfield St, Barbadoes St. 82 snaps.

Coda:

Post 22.02.11 Killer Quake: Insurers were happy to receive earthquake premiums for years when there were no earthquakes, but reluctant to insure when earthquakes / aftershocks happened. Many years post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, bldg owners would still battle EQC & insurers for settlements. Example: The Press article 14.12.22 reviewed court battles between Oxford Tce, Rydges Hotel owner & insurer about refurbishing vacant Rydges Hotel, vacant retail shops, vacant parking garage below, abandoned on the W edge of Cathedral Sq for over a decade.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.