http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse.html?hp&_r=0

 

NEW DELHI — An eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories collapsed on Wednesday morning, killing at least 70 people, injuring hundreds of others, and leaving an unknown number of people trapped in the rubble, according to Bangladeshi officials and media outlets.... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-co...

 

So much happening under our feet.  Daily collapses of roadways due to the severe bow stretch, severe rains, crunching and land subduction all predicted in Zetatalk and all happening now.  Last week in Utah a fatal road collapse killed a 14 year old girl and injured 2.  It's painful to watch the planet crumble but we all knew it was coming.

Buildings collapsing.........a daily happening too.  With responses about what's causing all these happenings ranging from, rain, human error, poorly constructed, yada yada.....BUT, that's not going to fly with people much longer.  As soon as Planet X peers out at us from the sky, people will remember all the things that have happened up to this point and finally somehow, they will connect the dots.  Some will be in extreme denial, others will be so afraid and look for someone to take care of them, and still others will stand up and be counted and prepare as best we could.  There's no wishing this away, there's only pushing forward to a better tomorrow.  While our infrastructure crumbles around us we need to learn to be more careful, tread softly, kiss your kids, love with all your heart.  We are IN IT NOW.

I live in a house built in 1850 and it isn't falling down.  Age does not mean collapse. 

100-year-old building partially collapses in Malone

By: Rachael Paradis

A building in Malone that has been standing for more than a century will no longer be a sight in the town. The building on Route 11, well known to many in the community, collapsed overnight. While no one was injured, our Rachael Paradis tells us why the town is in a rush to tear it down.


MALONE, N.Y. -- Neighbors in Malone stood in surprise, took pictures and even shared stories of a once popular tavern that started to crumble early Monday morning.

County Legislator Billy Jones said, "It's an old structure, it was a structure that was obviously unsafe."

The tavern/hotel was built in the early 1900'. It has been closed to the public for about 15 years and was condemned six months ago.

Franklin County Emergency Services Director Rick Provost, "We're unsure what occurred last night at 3 a.m. What we do know is this building has been on our list of buildings with issues."

Jones said, "Old things fall down."

Police closed off part off Route 11 to traffic and to people, out of concern the rest of the building could fall down. Some in the community voiced concern over why this building, along with others like it in the area that haven't already been demolished. Officials say it comes down to money.

Provost said, "The high cost of abatement for these buildings really makes it tough for the county or the village to take those burdens on."

Jones, "We just have to come up with a plan to start taking some of these building down so we don't run into this problem going forward."

The demolition is only expected to take hours, but cleaning up the area is a different issue. Officials say it could be weeks before the site is completely cleared.

http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/551123/100-year-old-bu...

 

 LAKE ELSINORE: Water leak causes street collapse

 

10:00 PM PDT on Friday, July 22, 2011

By GENE GHIOTTO
The Press-Enterprise

Temporary repairs to a section of Joy Street in Lake Elsinore are in place today after a 1-inch water line gave way, causing 80 feet of the roadway to collapse and the asphalt to buckle.

The leak, caused by a 6 to 8-inch diameter tree root, was reported late Thursday in a line that leads to several duplexes on Joy between Machado Street and Riverside Drive, and behind Machado Elementary School.

Water service was restored to the 34 customers early Friday morning, said Greg Morrison, spokesman for the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District.

Water district and contractor crews spent much of Friday removing the damaged asphalt on the southbound side of Joy and laying down a temporary patch. The road was opened in both directions by late afternoon.

"That way the road will be open completely for the entire weekend," Morrison said.

Crews will return Monday and trench from curb to curb to permanently repair the 1-inch line.

On Tuesday, a paving company will remove the patch, put down new base and repave one side of Joy, Morrison said. Work on the other side will take place on Wednesday.

"That way on Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be able to keep on

 

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_spipe23.38e27e6...

Windhorst, Parsons Roadway Collapse: Cautious Testing Continues

County workers are testing for sinkholes but the work is proceeding methodically because of utility lines at the intersection, according to a Hillsborough County spokesman.

Several lanes at the intersection of Windhorst Road and Parsons Avenue in Brandon remained closed for the indefinite future as county workers tread carefully in determining what caused a section of the roadway to collapse July 19.

“We have to be really careful at that intersection because there are lots of utility lines in the area,” said Hillsborough County spokesman Patrick Murray. "We have a sewer line and a water line there and we have to make sure there are no other utilities, so we have to be careful drilling.”

At the scene, late afternoon July 22, barricades were seen at the intersection, with drilling under way.

Crew workers first believed a 16-inch sewage pipeline beneath the intersection might have caused the collapse of the 6-foot-square section of roadway on July 19, according to a county report.

But the sewer line was dug up and found to be intact.  Now the county is testing the intersection for sinkholes — but carefully, as Murray noted.  

Additional detours and lane closures are possible as crews dig up the line for inspection and any necessary repairs.

Motorists who must travel through the intersection are warned to expect delays.

http://brandon.patch.com/articles/windhorst-parsons-roadway-collaps...

Sewer collapse closes part of Lexington Road

At least one eastbound lane of Road near Etley Avenue and Cave Hill Cemetery will be closed during Thursday morning’s rush hour after a 48-inch brick sewer collapsed Wednesday evening.

Crews noticed a depression in the road before discovering the sewer had collapsed, and the area will be excavated Thursday morning, said Metropolitan Sewer District Executive   Bud Schardein.

He said it was too early to tell what caused the collapse, but age was a likely factor. That part of the sewer was built in the 1880s and could have been weakened from an unusually wet spring.

“With all the wet weather we’ve had this past spring, that has a tendency to undermine the mortar,” Schardein said.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110720/NEWS01/307200099/Se...

Road collapse might have killed Colorado family

(2011-07-20)

(wpr) - Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths might have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes.

It had been raining for hours Monday night when local authorities warned the Constantinides family, among others, about potential flood conditions near North Brush Creek Campground around midnight.

Not long afterward, the family's van drove into a washed-out portion of Wyoming highway 130 and was swept about 75 yards down Brush Creek. Laurel Constantindies and her three daughters died.

The husband and father, Alex Constantindies, who had grown up in Laramie, survived and escape the vehicle. He and a passerby later rescued Carbon County Emergency management Coordinator John Ziegler, whose car washed out while he was trying to assist in flood protection efforts.

Ziegler said he was "very fortunate" to have survived.

Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to the roadway early Tuesday morning. He says preliminary assessments indicate the creek swollen with rain and snowmelt may have undermined the roadway over some hours and then gouged a 25-foot-wide, 9-foot-deep hole in a matter of minutes.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news.newsmain/article/1/0/183...

Yunnan road test the opening day collapse resulting in four deaths and injuries

8, Yunnan” in the history of the most short-lived highway “a serious collapse destroyed sections of the site. After investigation, the highway there in time duration and other issues. Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Hai and Ning She

Recently, Yunnan Province, Internet users post, said the new Xinping county secondary road test three estuary opening day collapse occurs, resulting in 2 dead 2 injured. Internet users have questioned this “the most short-lived highway” Why just fix it collapsed, was “too much rain” or “bad way”?

After the incident, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were dispatched to investigate a group of experts, the group that really belongs to all “natural disasters caused by heavy rainfall.”

collapse of the vehicle crash on

recently, Internet users “pass,” said Post, June 27, Xinping County of Yuxi City, three city secondary road test the opening of the estuary collapse occurred the next day, resulting in a vehicle passing through here turn under the cliff, killing two people died inside the car and two others injured, highway interrupted. For the cause of the accident, the local government is a single point of heavy rain caused by a natural disaster.

7 8, correspondent along the new road to the scene three, the road there are construction workers on the highway guardrail, drainage and other construction, from time to time some sections of earth and rock rolled down from the hills.

close to the scene of the accident, the construction set up roadblocks on the road side. In the new three road K25 +450 to K26 +480 road, the reporter saw a total of three road damage, including two collapsed, a surface crack. Road accident at the hillside, two-way four-lane have collapsed, a lot of rocks, soil and concrete was rushed into the street of the valley.

“red water collapsed roadbed”

Zhang Xinping County Department of Transportation Secretary BU has introduced three new roads through villages and towns in Xinping County 8 19 village committees, with a total mileage of 90 kilometers . Road along the fragile geology, disasters, floods and geological disasters have been more serious.

accidents mainly due to heavy rains led to a single point of soft roadbed, road ditches and culverts to be above the blockage, and finally the formation of water as a waterfall of impact, resulting in collapse of highway roadbed.

Bu there are rules that highway design, construction and supervision units are selected strictly in accordance with the bidding system, procedural compliance and found no serious design flaws, quality of construction or supervision of omissions.

collapse occurred Sections of the construction unit project manager Jiangzu Long introduction, the unit will subcontract work to the successful construction services company, the project head of engineering equipment and materials, and is responsible for management and technical guidance, service company only the labor force, which is not labor sub-subcontract, the state permitted by law.

he said, in strict accordance with design drawings for construction, engineering, quality is no problem, Lu Jisong soft infiltration and erosion is mainly caused by the floods.

no quality problems, experts say

afterwards, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were sent experts to the scene. The Group believes that: section of the incident transverse slope steep terrain, poor geological conditions, heavy rainfall increased the hydrostatic pressure, the formation of collapse, is a heavy rainfall-induced natural disasters.

Yunnan Provincial Communications Department who participated in the survey, experts say, from the survey of the situation, roadbed, retaining wall strength and so meet the requirements and found no quality problems.

subsidy investigation in time duration for the fight

accused of the most short-lived road not approved the first building, not the acceptance that the opening test

Reporter learned that the investigation, three new road opened in October 2009 to build, and design in May 2010 before the Provincial Communications Department has been approved, there is “not approved prior to construction” and “time duration” issue. Not hand over the road in case of acceptance of test traffic violations, and plans to be held on 30 June the opening ceremony, canceled after the accident.

construction personnel, three new road along the geological environment is complex, time is short, heavy task in building a post, Xinping shouted “make a big quick-drying 60 days,” the slogan of the progress of the projects Forced , post workers overtime work.

what makes engineering so catch it? Reporters learned that, in addition to travel to meet the requirements of the masses, more important reason is that for national road toll for the abolition of two grants. According to the policy, the new secondary roads shall be June 30 this year, opened to traffic, or can not enjoy the state’s two highway toll abolition of subsidies.

http://www.cnkeyword.info/yunnan-road-test-the-opening-day-collapse...

Details Emerge in Deadly Road Collapse

Cheyenne : WY : USA | Jul 20, 2011
 
Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths may have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes. Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to state Route 130 over South Brush Creek... FULL ARTICLE AT KSAZ

http://www.allvoices.com/news/9730810-details-emerge-in-deadly-road...

 

 

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 8, 2012 at 12:35am

Public safety: Two children die in wall collapse

Three others hospitalised with minor injuries.

BAHAWALPUR: 

Two children died and three others were injured on Tuesday when the wall of a building collapsed.

Rescue officials said that the children were playing in an empty plot adjacent to a dilapidated house in Sodaywala near Uch Sharif when the wall fell.

Ajmal, 10, and Sajid, 8, were trapped beneath the rubble and died Shahid, 7, Zahida, 10, and Fiza, 5, were injured in the incident. The injured children were taken to Health Centre, where doctors treating them later said they were now out of danger.

Akhtar, father of one of the injured children, told The Express Tribune that the children often played in the plot. He said on Tuesday afternoon, the residents of the area heard a loud noise.
They rushed to see what had happened and found the wall had collapsed. He said they could hear the screams of the injured children, but it took then an hour to pull them out. Two of them, he said, were dead when they were pulled out.

One of the doctor said that the remaining children had received only minor injuries to the head and back.

Investigation officer Mahar Altaf said that the investigation into the case had started.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 7, 2012 at 9:50pm

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/americas/view/201202...

Partial collapse of building kills 1 in Brazil

By Associated Press
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -
 

SAO PAULO — Brazilian firefighters say a 13-story building has partially collapsed in an industrial suburb outside Sao Paulo, killing a 3-year-old girl.

Fire department spokeswoman Vanessa Andrade says the concrete floor of the top story collapsed, taking with it all of the other floors in the building. The shell of the structure remains standing.

She says the causes of the Monday night accident in Sao Bernardo do Campo are being investigated.

Six people suffered injuries that are not life-threatening.

Andrade says at least one person is known to be missing. She is a 25-year-old nurse.

Andrade says most of the building’s 74 units were occupied by commercial and doctors’ offices and one luncheonette.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 7, 2012 at 3:25pm

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_middleeast_africa/2012-02-07...

Deadly Building Collapse in Cairo

Created: Feb 07 2012

Rescuers search through the rubble of a collapsed building in Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt.
   
At least one person was killed in the accident.              
              
Local residents say they felt the earth shake, and after running out on to the street found that the building had collapsed.
              
[Local Resident]:                
"We felt the earth shaking at around 2:30 a.m. We, the residents of the area, ran out and found that this building had collapsed. The building was around nine to eleven months old, some say that there were families in it but we don't know if there were."              
              
It was not immediately clear whether the shaking the residents felt was from an earthquake, or the collapse of the building.             
Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 7, 2012 at 2:22am

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/06/wall-of-bricks-collapse...

Wall Of Bricks Collapses Onto Sidewalk In East Oakland

Scene of Oakland building facade collapse

Scene where the facade of a corner liquor store collapsed onto the pavement at the corner of 13th Ave. and International Blvd. in Oakland, February 6, 2012.

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – What was first reported as a building explosion in Oakland early Monday morning turned out to be the facade collapse of an aging building.

Emergency officials had responded to the scene, at 13th and International, a building that houses Express Liquor and Market as well as several work-live units.

The call first came in to the fire department at approximately 6:15 a.m.

“It looks like dry rot or masonry degraded over time and it just way,” explained one of the firefighters summoned to the scene.

“I’d say roughly 1,000 lbs. if I was guessing,” the firefighter estimated the size of rubble on the sidewalk.

Normally, there is a lot of foot traffic in and out of the market, making it especially remarkable that there were no injuries in the incident. Still, the facade actually stretches halfway down the block, and engineers were expressing concern about whether the roughly 75-year-old structure had become so unstable that additional brick work could give way at any time.

Consequently, the sidewalk and one lane of traffic was blocked off indefinitely.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 6, 2012 at 10:40pm

Two killed, six injured in roof collapse incident in Pishin

PISHIN, (SANA): At least two persons were killed and six others injured when roof of a building collapsed in Khanozai area of Pishin district on Monday.

Police sources said that roof of a restaurant caved in due to heavy snowfall.

Resultantly, two men sitting inside the hall of the restaurant were killed and six others received wounds. The killed include a passenger and owner of the hotel. Rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the injured to nearby hospital where condition of the some was stated to be serious.

An official of the district administration Pishin said that they had been investigating the incident.

It is pertinent to mention here that Khanozai, a small town located on Quetta-Zhob highway is famous for its highest literacy rate regarding girls across Balochistan province.
Ends-SANA-ZS

Comment by Love is the answer on February 6, 2012 at 8:38pm
Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 6, 2012 at 8:32pm

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/dam-bursts-bulgaria-f...

Dam Bursts in Bulgaria, 8 Killed in Floods

A dam in southern Bulgaria burst Monday after days of heavy rain, sending an eight-foot-high (2.5-meter) torrent surging through a village along the Greek border. The disaster brought the region's toll from flooding to eight dead, 10 missing.

The dam on the Ivanovo Reservoir collapsed, flooding 700 houses in the village of Bisser, civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said. Four bodies were found in the raging waters, three of them elderly men, the Bisser mayor reported.

A reporter at Bisser saw the muddy water crashing into homes, tossing cars, drowning animals and uprooting trees. Many homes were destroyed and some residents had to climb onto their roofs to escape.

Many in Bisser had to be rescued from their water-logged homes and were spending the night in emergency shelters. Officials were still assessing the damage late Monday.

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AP
A man sorts through the remains of his home... View Full Caption

Authorities have declared a state of emergency in much of southern Bulgaria due to the heavy rain. District governor Irena Uzunova said four others were killed and 10 people are still missing in the floods that have washed away bridges and roads.

Bulgaria's civil defense agency warned that two bigger dams at Ivaylovgrad and Studena were also on the brink of overflowing and residents were urged to prepare for an evacuation. The government also warned Turkey and Greece of floods surging down the Arda, Tundzha and Maritsa rivers.

Prime Minister Boiko Borisov and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov came to the flooded region late Monday and pledged emergency aid.

Train services were suspended in southern Bulgaria and many roads remained closed, submerged under water or badly damaged.

Rain-soaked landslides also derailed the engine of an Istanbul-bound train near the border town of Svilengrad, causing no injuries but stranding passengers for hours.

In neighboring Turkey, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported that due to flood warnings some businesses and villagers close to river banks near the Bulgarian border had started to evacuate. Authorities said only large trucks were being allowed to travel between Bulgaria and Turkey due to the flooding.

Comment by Andrey Eroshin on February 6, 2012 at 4:47pm

Third building collapses in one week in Egypt

31.01.12. A building in the center of Damietta collapsed on Tuesday evening, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
http://news.egypt.com/english/permalink/81077.html

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 6, 2012 at 3:08pm
Second building collapses in one week in Alexandria
Mon, 06/02/2012 - 10:19
Directed by Ahmed el-Lozy

 

At least five people were killed early Monday when a residential building collapsed in Montazah, Alexandria, in the second building collapse in the city this week, state-run MENA reported.

Khaled Ghoraba, Alexandria security chief, said five families were likely inside the 14-story building when it collapsed.

Another building collapsed on Saturday, killing the doorman and a child walking by at the time. Authorities had ordered the eviction and demolition of the 10-story building, which was empty at the time of the collapse.

In December 2010, a building that comprised a clothes factory collapsed killing 26 people and injuring 10 others.

Building collapses are a frequent problem in the coastal city, with several incidents occurring in recent years.

In 2007, a building collapsed in the Loran neighborhood, killing 36 and injuring three people. In 2008, a building collapsed in the Fleming neighborhood, killing 21 and injuring eight.

Rescue Workers Search Alexandria Building Collapse

http://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/492629

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 6, 2012 at 3:04pm

Crawler crane boom collapse in Nova Scotia

February 6, 2012

http://www.vertikal.net/en/news/story/14139/

The boom of a 200 tonne lattice crawler crane dropped its load and collapsed onto a boom lift and barge in Novas Scotia on Thursday.

Thankfully no one was injured in the incident, which occurred while a bridge was being dismantled. The crane, owned and operated by A.W. Leil Cranes & Equipment of Dartmouth, near Antigonish, was working from a barge, removing a 55 ton span of the former railway bridge, when the boom appears to have buckled dropping the load.

Nova Scotia
The bridge section can be seen partly in the water


The span was being lowered at the time and was around six metres from the ground, when the barge started to move and the boom gave way. Four men, including the crane operator, were working on the barge when the load came down, all escaped with minor injuries at worst.

Nova Scotia
The scene after the incident

An investigation into exactly what happened is currently ongoing.

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