Collapsing Buildings and Roadways

[Starr DiGiacomo]

Highway collapse, Jingdong, China, 03.11.25

Building Collapse in Manchester, UK

October 17, 2025, a playground collapsed at Zijiang School in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, fortunately no casualties were reported. The Zijiang School playground collapse emergency response headquarters announced on Saturday that they have begun an investigation to the cause.

The emergency response headquarters confirmed that the west wall and some playgrounds of the campus of the school collapsed, and the corners of the west side of the Boxue Building (teaching building) were damaged.

ZETATALK: THE STRETCH ZONE, THAT SINKING FEELING

ZetaTalk explores the concept of Earth's "stretch zones"—regions where tectonic plates are being pulled apart due to planetary forces, particularly in anticipation of a predicted pole shift. It focuses heavily on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., the Caribbean, and parts of Europe, warning that these areas will experience significant land subsidence due to the widening of the Atlantic Rift.

Key points include:

• Historical evidence of submerged forests and civilizations off the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda.

• Predictions that areas like Florida, Georgia, and the UK will lose elevation and be permanently flooded.

• A detailed catalog of sinkholes, train derailments, infrastructure collapses, and mysterious odors from 2004–2005, interpreted as signs of Earth stretching.

• The concept of “imploding cities”, where underground infrastructure fails due to shifting rock layers.

• Warnings to relocate from vulnerable coastal and low-lying areas before the pole shift occurs.

More: https://www.zetatalk.com/index/blog1010.htm

[Starr DiGiacomo]

The following is a news release via the Idaho Department of Fish and Game

The replacement culvert for a washed-out section of Idaho 55 near Marsing will likely not be received until Friday, extending repair time and subsequent re-opening of the road into early next week.

The replacement culvert must be a reinforced concrete pipe made specifically for deep installations. This type of pipe material is not readily available and will have to be manufactured. The replacement pipe is coming from a Nampa company.

A less-expensive metal pipe cannot be used because the composition of the soil would eventually corrode and eat away the metal, causing another failure. Aluminum, in that quantity and shape, is more expensive and difficult to find.
To handle greater water-flow volumes, the new culvert also will be 48 inches in diameter rather than the 36-inch diameter of the corrugated metal culvert that failed Sunday afternoon.

Crews have constructed a gravel-and-dirt “bench” from which to use an excavator. From the bench, ITD will remove the remains of the old pipe and create a diversion channel in order to have a relatively dry area to work while replacing the culvert. The new concrete pipe will then be installed and the joints sealed. The diversion pipe will be removed and the excavation filled to near roadway level. The roadway base will then be graded, compacted and the roadway repaved.

The failing culvert caused the washout of a 20-foot section of highway about a half-mile west of Marsing near the junction with U.S. 95 Sunday between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Subsequently, an excavator opened the area above the culvert and removed debris Sunday night to minimize material washing down the channel and to the Snake River, about a mile away. The remaining roadway in that area was trenched through the night to allow water to flow from one side of the road to the other and not interrupt service to irrigators downstream or risk a collapse of the culvert. A collapse would have created a dam and spilled water over the roadway, potentially expanding the area of damage.

Two detour routes are in place. Drivers coming from Oregon on U.S. 95 are being directed to Pershall and Idaho 78, and drivers are directed to Edison and Thompson roads to get to Marsing using Idaho 55. Detour signs are in place to move traffic around the work area. The detours add about two miles to the route.

The cost of repairs are estimated at $22,000. Because the failure was within the highway right-of-way, ITD will pay for the repairs through its maintenance funds.

Approximately 3,300 vehicles use that section of highway each day, especially agricultural traffic

http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/126261898.html

[Starr DiGiacomo]

BREAKING NEWS: San Marcos Construction Accident Kills 1, Injures 1

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

(San Marcos, TX) -- One construction worker was killed and another injured shortly before noon today when a pre-engineered metal building frame under construction collapsed at the Thermon Manufacturing Company in San Marcos, which sits along the southbound I-35 access road just south of Wonder World Drive. Officials did not release the name of the worker who died pending notification of next of kin. A second worker was transported by ambulance to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin with serious but non-life threatening injuries. The cause of the collapse is still under investigation. Thermon Manufacturing, and its contractor for that project, Bailey-Elliott Construction of Austin, have reported the accident to OSHA, which will also be investigating. Thermon manufactures heat tracing products that are used in oil, gas and refining industries. The company has been headquartered in San Marcos since 1971.

http://kgnb.am/news/breaking-news-san-marcos-construction-accident-...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

Part of town street collapses creating large sinkhole

(Photo by Sonja Morrison) A nearby resident checks out the large sinkhole that opened up on 2nd Ave SE near the corner of 1st St SE in Carman.

No injuries reported as street closed

By Gene Still

Updated 50 minutes ago

This was more than just a regular pothole.

Town of Carman work crews were called out to 2nd Ave SE near the corner of First Street SE after receiving a call about a large sinkhole approximately six feet by five feet and about five feet deep, on the street.

Sonja Morrison, who lives near the site with her family, said they heard a "thump" and then a second louder one when they went outside their home to take a look at around 5:15 p.m. on Monday.

Collapsed

"By the time we came out it had fully collapsed," Morrison said. "It was fairly deep as well."

And viewing the scene they were concerned about more damage underneath the street.

"I was a little worried about the amount of support under the road and if it would collapse further," she said.

Morrison said someone had called town work crews and they were on the scene "within minutes". The town workers closed off the road and remained at the scene overnight until construction crews arrived.

She added the construction crews have since torn up a larger part of the street for a major repair.

Over A Galvanized Sewer Pipe

The town's chair of works and operations, Coun. Brad Johnston said from their initial investigation, the part of the road that sank was over top of a galvanized sewer pipe.

"It would appear that sometime in the past they tried to repair it before with a galvanized pipe but those things just don't last as long," Johnston said. "There's a great big hole there this morning (Tuesday)."

He said from their initial reports a vehicle went over the area and softened the surface a little and then another vehicle went over it and sank a little further with some minor damage to the vehicle.

However, there were no injuries.

Johnston noted the town has a camera system and will be checking out other streets for potential problem areas.

He said while they didn't have an exact time when the street would be repaired and open to traffic again, the construction crews are experienced at doing these types of major repairs.

"It's too soon to tell but it's always amazing what they can do with their equipment."

http://www.carmanvalleyleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3231233

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Roof collapse in Bhangrial kills five

 

Shakeel Anjum
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

 

Islamabad: Five members of a family, including a woman and four children, were killed and six others wounded when the roof of a house caved in, in Bhangrial village — located near Grand Trunk Road on the outskirts of the capital — due to the heavy downpour in the wee hours of Monday.

According to details gathered from different sources, 35-year-old Malika Bibi, wife of Mohammad Mobarik, a resident of Palundri, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Saliha, 6, daughter of Habib, Walid, 8, son of Khalid Mehmood, Faizan Altaf, 7, son of Altaf and a 7-year-old son of Abdul Waheed were among the dead.

The ill-fated family was celebrating a marriage when the incident occurred. The family, belonging to Azad Jammu and Kashmir, shifted the dead bodies to Palundri for burial after informing the police.

The villagers told this scribe that Altaf Hussain was living with his family in the house and his relatives had come to his house to attend the marriage ceremony of his youngest son, Qamar Altaf. After the marriage ceremony, people went to sleep at around 1 am, but in the meantime rain started to pour down heavily and roof of the house caved in.

Residents of the village rushed to the scene to pull the people out of the debris. However, five persons, including a woman and five children, died on the spot. In another incident, two minor boys slipped into Nullah Leh near Dhoke Chaudhrian. The people watching the scene fished out one of them from the flooded Nullah Leh, and shifted him to hospital where his condition is stated to be out of danger.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=59606&Cat=2...