Images of the devastation wrought by the earthquake that occurred in New Zealand on Feb. 22, 2011, show a scene of complete destruction and devastation. Click the following pages to see the extent of the damage.
Vehicles move through flooded roads in South Brighton after Christchurch, New Zealand, was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The powerful earthquake struck one of New Zealand's biggest cities Tuesday at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Sarah Ivey)
Eastern suburbs are flooded after Christchurch, New Zealand, was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Sarah Ivey)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people walk through a street partly covered with rubble after an earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Pu Rui)
A group of people travel with Glacier Explorers to see one of the many icebergs that caved into Tasman Lake as a result of the 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, February 22, 2011. (AP Photo/NZPA, Denis Callesen)
Rescue workers work to extinguish a fire at a collapsed building in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
Rescue workers climb onto the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness Building in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22 2011. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
Several of the icebergs that caved into Tasman Lake are seen from the air after a 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, February 22, 2011. (AP Photo/NZPA, Denis Callesen)
Rescue workers search for victims after an earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Wethey)
Rescue workers and a helicopter work to extinguish a fire at a collapsed building of King's Education in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Several among a group of 23 Japanese exchange students and teachers at King's Education were still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
People broke windows to prepare to be rescued from a high-rise building in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald)
Liquification bubbles to the surface in front of a damaged house in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/NZPA/Ashburton Guardian, Kirsty Graham)
A man rides his bicycle on a damaged road in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/NZPA/Ashburton Guardian, Kirsty Graham)
Rescue workers search for victims buried under the rubble near the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday night, Feb. 23, 2011. Students from across Asia are feared among the dead in the CTV building that collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake, with police saying Wednesday that they were “100 percent certain” no one trapped in the rubble was alive. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shuzo Shikano)
Rescue workers search for victims buried under the rubble near the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday night, Feb. 23, 2011. Students from across Asia are feared among the dead in the CTV building that collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shuzo Shikano)
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