Before the Quake - Downtown Christchurch

[drcuriosity]

Just spent an hour or so going through the bunch of downtown photos I took in July and annotating them with position information, assisted by Google Maps and StreetView images. As it happens, Manchester and High Streets have a lot of old brick buildings and were one of the worse hit areas, from what I hear. I'm thinking of retracing my steps once things are a bit safer, and seeing what changes the quake and its aftershocks have wrought. But for now, here's how it was.

From Christchurch - Even More Building Ref

Also, some quake photo links courtesy of nightwlf:
http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/photos.shtml
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/photos/4095395/Latest-photos-7-1-quake