Story: Historic earthquakes
Hundreds of photographs of the damage caused by the Darfield earthquake swarmed onto Flickr, a photo-sharing website. Social media was a major way that people heard about and shared experiences of the earthquake.
This slideshow is a live feed of images from Flickr which are retrieved by searching for the words ‘Christchurch earthquake damage’.
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