Collapsing Buildings and Roadways

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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

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8 killed in Nigeria building collapse

 Published: 04:48 PM, 12 October 2020  

At least eight people died and 10 people were injured when a building collapsed in Nigeria’s densely populated economic hub Lagos, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said in a report.

The incident happened at a building under construction in Ikoyi, a wealthy area of Lagos on Sunday evening local time. 

20 people have been rescued in an overnight operation. They are currently being treated at a local hospital.

The fire service authorities claimed that the victims were all workers working in the building. Many are still trapped under the rubble. The cause of the accident is not yet known. However, it is initially thought that the builders did not follow the construction policy. This unfortunate accident is due to corruption.

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2 killed, 5 hurt in building collapse in Hyderabad

Two people were dead and five others injured after a building collapsed at Hussainalam in Old City due to heavy rains on Sunday noon. Of the five injured, the condition of two is said to be critical. The GHMC disaster response force rushed to the spot along with the fire officials and pulled out the trapped persons in the debris of the building collapse and shifted to a private hospital in Moghalpura for treatment. Two people succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.

According to the Charminar ACP B Anjaiah, it was a two-storied old building where a family was staying on the first floor and there were shops on the ground floor. After shifting the injured to the hospital, the GHMC workers took up the demolition works of the building. Heavy rains battered the city since Sunday morning throwing the normal life out of gear. Areas like Kukatpally, Kondapur, Madhapur, Gachibowli, Rayadurgam, Jeedimetla, Quthbullapur, Kompally and Dundigal witnessed heavy rainfall.

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Another Building Collapse: Many Saved In Jos

No fewer than 32 persons have reportedly escaped death Friday when a storey building caved in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria.

The building which crumbled after a downpour on Friday is said to be housing about eight households.

A resident, Adamu Mubiro, said the occupants were lucky as the building came down minutes after they were evacuated.

“When the rain started, we heard some sound from the building with four flats and some people came to warn the occupants to vacate the place.

“Less than ten minutes after they moved out of the building, it collapsed around 9am.”

The General Manager of the Jos Metropolitan Development Board, Kefas Yirlwang, who also confirmed the building collapse, however, said that no life was lost.

Yirlwang said, “It was an old building that collapsed during heavy rain. Immediately, we heard of the incident, our men were immediately deployed in the area and fortunately, there was no loss of life as the occupants were safely taken away. ”

The General Manager warned residents to steer clear of dilapidated structures to avoid any untoward incident, especially during the rains

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Unsafe building collapse in Iran, unknown date from r/CatastrophicFailure

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Vadodara Building Collapse: At least 3 Dead After Under-Construction Building in Gujarat’s Bawamanpura Area Collapses, Here’s What We Know So far

In yet another tragic incident, three people died after an under-construction building collapsed in Bawamanpura in Vadodara on late Monday night. Several vehicles parked on the facing main road were crushed as the building collapsed the chunks of debris fell on the cars.

Gujarat, September 29: In yet another tragic incident, three people died after an under-construction building collapsed in Bawamanpura in Vadodara on late Monday night. Several vehicles parked on the facing main road were crushed as the building collapsed the chunks of debris fell on the cars.

The incident took place just a few weeks after the Bhiwandi building collapse incident in which 41 people died.  

3 Children Dead in Vadodara Building Collapse

Here’s what we know so far of the Vadodara Building Collapse: 

The rescue operation is underway. According to locals, the building was originally at least three decades old and was undergoing a renovation. A team of 30 fire officers is at the spot to rescue those trapped under the debris. The rescued people have been rushed to the hospital. Some people were reportedly trapped in the debris. More details on this are expected soon.

The Bhiwandi Building collapse was reported to the third-worst building collapse in the past seven years in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The building in the powerloom town – which is around 10 km from Thane – had 40 flats and around 150 persons lived there. Many people were trapped under the debris and the NDRF over three days pulled out the bodies and managed to rescue many as well. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had condoled the loss of lives in the incident.

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At Least 15 Dead, 25 Feared Trapped In India Building Collapse

Sept 21 2020

At least 15 people were killed and up to 25 others were still feared trapped Monday after a three-storey apartment block collapsed in western India, officials said.

Local residents cheered as emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) pulled 20 survivors -- including two boys aged four and seven -- from the rubble of the building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.

An NDRF spokesman told reporters that emergency workers had retrieved 15 bodies from the rubble.

NDRF director general Satya Narayan Pradhan tweeted that specialist teams and sniffer dogs were trying to rescue another "20-25 feared trapped".

An official at the Thane city authority, which oversees Bhiwandi, told AFP that more than 40 emergency workers were helping search for survivors.

Images broadcast on the NDRF's official Twitter feed showed emergency workers combing through concrete and brick rubble with electrical wires hanging over their heads.

The cause of the pre-dawn accident was not immediately clear, but building collapses are common during India's June-September monsoon season, with old and rickety structures buckling after days of non-stop rain.

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Road collapses within a year in Kurigram

Local people have blamed use of substandard materials in the construction work

The road stretching from Narikelbari-Satibari to Khamar Government Primary School in Ulipur municipality of Kurigram district has collapsed at several places. Besides, the guide wall of the road has collapsed, causing immense sufferings to commuters.

All these things happened within a year of the construction of the road.

Local people have blamed use of substandard materials in the construction work of the road.

Due to collapse of the road at various places, the width of the road has shrunk to six to four feet from its original width of 10 feet.

According to the municipality sources, in November 2018, the construction work of the road was started at a cost of Tk 96 lakh under the JICA project and it was completed in June 2019. Guide walls were constructed at two places to protect the road from being damaged by Buri Teesta river water.

Mahbubul Alam, assistant engineer of the municipality, said contractor Shah Alam, owner of Messrs' Sunflower Firm, got the work order but sub-contractor Shahinur Alamgir, owner of Anwesha Traders, did the road construction work. 

 Mahbubul told The Daily Star that the road was damaged in a short time due to heavy rains and waters from the river. The contractor is yet to submit the final bill. The contractor has already been given a show-cause notice and he has been asked to renovate the road.

Asked about the poor quality work of the road, the engineer said substandard materials were not used in the construction work.

The road is at high risk of collapse as it is on the bank of the Buri Teesta river, he said. 

 Contacted, Shahinur Alamgir, sub-contractor, said the road and guide wall were damaged by the Buri Teesta river water.

If the municipality authorities ask him to renovate the road, he will do it, said Shahinur. 

 Kamruzzaman Miah, a resident of Narikelbari area, said local people protested when substandard materials were being used in the road construction work. But the municipality authorities did not listen to the protesters then as the contractor is a local Awami League leader.

The road is still collapsing at different places, he said, adding that vehicles and pedestrians cannot move smoothly on the road now due to its bad condition.

The condition of the road usually turns very bad during monsoon, said Kamruzzaman, adding that due to this, the commuters have to suffer a lot. 

 Abdul Khaleq, a resident of Satibari area in the municipality, said due to use of low quality construction materials, the road collapsed at different places. The road got badly damaged within a year of its construction.

The road may fully collapse any time due to heavy rains if it is not renovated immediately, he said.

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Part of building collapses in Mumbai; woman feared trapped

The back portion of an eight-storey residential building collapsed in Dongri area of Mumbai on Wednesday morning and a woman was feared trapped under a staircase there, a civic official said. 

September 02, 2020 11:03 IST

The back portion of an eight-storey residential building collapsed in Dongri area of Mumbai on Wednesday morning and a woman was feared trapped under a staircase there, a civic official said. Fire brigade, police and ambulances rushed to the spot and search and rescue operations were underway, he said.

The incident took place on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Road in Dongri area around 7.30 am when the entire back portion between the third and seventh floors of the old building collapsed, the official said

A woman was feared trapped under a staircase of the building and efforts were on to rescue her, the official said

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4-storey redeveloped Palghar building collapses, lucky escape for residents

The building had been declared unfit for occupancy by the authorities, yet some families continued to live there.

Updated: Sep 02, 2020 12:44 IST

Just nine days after a five-storey building in Raigad district of Maharashtra collapsed, killing 16 people and injuring nine others, a 25-year-old four-storey re-developed building named Safalya in Palghar’s Majithia Park collapsed around 0115 hrs on Wednesday. However, five families consisting of 22 members escaped unhurt.

The Nalasopara building was redeveloped in 2009, but in 2018 major cracks had developed in a few parts of the structure, following which the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) had declared the building dangerous and unfit for residents and issued evacuation notices to 20 odd flat owners. Around 15 families moved out, but five families consisting of 22 people, including men, women, children and senior citizens, decided to stay back in the building.

An unidentified resident said they stayed back since they could not afford steep rents in other buildings and we were fighting a court case against Abhay Naik, the builder, for shoddy construction using bad quality cement and materials. He alleged that Naik had also made some illegal structures without an approval from the VVMC.

A few of the residents had held a meeting in the building premises on the evening of Anant Chaturdashi (Tuesday) when they noticed a huge pile of soil near the main gate following which, the residents decided to lodge a complaint with the Vasai civic body on Wednesday.

At around 2315 hrs, while the residents were preparing to go to bed, they heard sounds of falling rubble. Upon inspection of the building they found out that a portion of the structure had fallen down and deeper cracks had emerged in the building.

Panicked residents evacuated the flats and gathered inside the building compound when at around 0100 hrs, the entire building collapsed like a pack of cards, moments after a couple identified as Dayanand Deorukhkar and Seema came down from their fourth floor flat in a miraculous escape.

The Vasai civic fire brigade services were at the spot to clear the debris and the disaster response team could be called for further help. The Nalla Sopara police were taking statements from the residents and the process of registering an FIR was on.

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A Building Collapses on 700 Bikes Donated for St. Louis Bicycle Works

THE BEST WAY TO HELP RIGHT NOW IS TO DONATE ON THE ST. LOUIS BICYCLE WORKS WEBSITE OR VIA PAYPAL.

Aug 31, 2020

• On August 23, a warehouse building in St. Louis, Missouri, where about 700 donated bikes were being stored for a nonprofit, collapsed.
• No one was inside the building when the collapse happened, but members of St. Louis Bicycle Works had been using the space earlier that week.
• The best way to help is to drop off a bike for donation to the office in St. Louis, or to donate through PayPal.

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A building in the historic Lemp Brewery complex in St. Louis, Missouri, partially collapsed on August 23, burying an estimated 700 bikes donated to St. Louis Bicycle Works. It’s a hard blow for the local nonprofit program, especially as people are relying on bicycles for transportation—or as a safe form of exercise and recreation during the coronavirus pandemic—now more than ever.

No one was inside the building when the collapse occurred. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the nonprofit’s executive director Patrick Van Der Tuin said he had recently reported loose bricks falling from the building and that caution tape was put up around the building last week. The building’s owner, Shashi Palamand, said that an engineer and masonry company had reportedly declared the building to be structurally sound within the past few weeks.

“During the pandemic, we’ve been storing even more bikes than usual at the Lemp facility, as well as working out of there for better social distancing. We are so grateful that no one was in the space when it collapsed,” BWorks said in its Facebook post.

St. Louis Bicycle Works is one of the charter programs of St. Louis BWorks—or BWorks for short. The organization was established in 1988, and runs an Earn-a-Bike program, where local kids—around 350 participate each year—learn about bicycle safety and maintenance and receive a bike upon finishing the program.

The building had served as the nonprofit’s main storage area for most of its donated bikes. According to the program’s Facebook post, around 350 of those bikes were already set aside for kids graduating from this year’s Earn-a-Bike program.

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“Another 200 adult bikes were destined for other local and international nonprofits to be used for transportation, and still another 100 adult bikes were to be refurbished and sold to help fund our nonprofit and keep our youth programs free to families in our community,” read the Facebook post.

The rest of the building will be demolished, and there’s no word yet on how many bikes can be salvaged.

The building collapse is the latest misfortune for BWorks; just two weeks prior, the nonprofit’s Ford F-250 truck, which was used to transport bikes, was stolen.

Those who are interested in donating a bike can drop it off at BWork’s main location at 2414 Menard Street in St. Louis. You can also donate to St. Louis Bicycle Works by sending a check to their office (more information here) or through PayPal.

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29 Dead in Building Collapse as Birthday Celebration Goes Awry

August 30 2020

Linfen residents had built the banquet hall out of cheaper, more lightweight construction materials, though the cause of the incident is still being investigated.

A restaurant in northern China’s Shanxi province collapsed Saturday morning, killing 29 people and injuring 28 more, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

The incident occurred in the prefecture-level city of Linfen during a gathering organized by a local resident to celebrate his 80th birthday. He had stepped outside for a few moments when he saw the roof of the first-story banquet hall cave in. He survived the collapse, but his wife who remained inside the structure was killed.

At least three children are among the deceased, according to reporters with Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper who were at the scene.

The collapsed banquet hall was built in a courtyard between two other buildings by Linfen locals a few years ago. The roof was made with relatively cheap and lightweight — and generally more fragile, compared with reinforced concrete — building materials called prefabricated structural panels. Such panels were once commonly used for construction projects in rural areas.

However, the cause of the collapse is unclear for now. Shanxi’s provincial government has assembled a “major accident investigation team” to look into the incident.