Trapped : remarkable stories of survival from the 2011 Canterbury earthquake / Martin van Beynen ; foreword by Bob Parker.

"Terror, courage and heroism - more than 30 survivors recount how they were rescued after the Canterbury earthquake of February 2011"--Publisher information.

Includes index.

Yukio Minami, Kento Okuda, Rika Iwakura : Third floor, CTV building -- Amy Cooney : Iconic Bar, corner Manchester and Gloucester Streets -- Ann Brower : No. 3 bus, Colombo Street -- Emma Greenslade (née Howard) : Second floor, PGC building -- Emma Service, Bonnie Singh, Matt Parkin : Southern Ink tattoo studio, Colombo Street -- Tim Cronshaw : Third floor, Press building -- Ann Bodkin : Third floor, PGC building -- Chris Littlewood : Sixth floor, Forsyth Barr building -- Helen Grice : Clyde St, Fendalton -- Ann Malcolm : Fifth floor, CTV building -- Marie Mackey : Bennetts Shoe Repairs, Colombo Street -- Jim Faithfull : First floor, PGC building -- Qing Tang : Fifth floor, CTV building -- Ed Post, Gordon Cullen : Fifth floor, Forsyth Barr building -- Lyn Reid : Third floor, Press building -- Hiroko Sato : Third floor, CTV building -- Rochelle Prattley, Glenn Prattley : Ruben Blades salon, Lichfield St -- Sue Spigel : Christchurch Cathedral -- Ian Reddington : Third floor, Press building -- Kendyll Mitchell, Jett, Dita : Fifth floor, CTV building -- Jackie Kinder : Southern Ink tattoo studio, Colombo Street -- David Curtis, Nick Carson : Port Hills and Christchurch Gondola.

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers ...when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.' Ann Bodkin, trapped for 25 hours. The Canterbury earthquake of February 2011 altered landscape, history, and most importantly, human lives. Many perished and the lives of thousands were upended. In Trapped, Martin van Beynen documents with sensitivity and unerring detail the personal experiences of more than thirty quake survivors - before, during and after the event - in their own words. At once poignant, dramatic and enthralling, their stories record a defining moment in Canterbury's history and testify to the courage and heroism of everyday people.