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Road damage outside Kaiapoi Fire Station

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Road damage outside Kaiapoi Fire Station

This image gives some sense of the scale of the damage in Kaiapoi following the earthquake on 4 September 2010. There was much damage to buildings and infrastructure, with over half the sewers unable to be used and 22 buildings considered too dangerous to enter.

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by Melissa Jemmett

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John Wilson, Canterbury places – Kaiapoi district, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/46377/road-damage-outside-kaiapoi-fire-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 8 December 2014, updated 17 August 2015.