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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Engineers assess road collapse

Australia, David Low Way road collapse, 27th February 2012

10.25AM  UPDATE: MAIN Roads engineers and council maintenance crews this morning made initial assessment of what will be required to re-open the busy David Low Way after a section of the road collapsed at about 6pm Sunday.

Swift flowing water pouring out of the national park just north of the Coolum Soccer Club grounds have eroded away stormwater pipes under the coastal road causing significant collapse of the southbound lane.

However erosion of supporting soil around the pipe extends further than that.

Roadtek engineers on the scene at 7.30am today said repair would be difficult until the swift flow of water ceased.

A decision will be taken later today on the schedule for repair work and whether there is any value in constructing a temporary diversion.

That short term fix may require significant engineering which could negate its value.

Council maintenance superintendent Paul Tarrant said water flowing under the road followed a water course that carried it back south and into Stumers Creek.

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Building wall collapses in Port Jervis

Published: 2:00 AM - 02/24/12

DAWN J. BENKO/For the Times Herald-Record

A wall collapse on a Front Street building in Port Jervis left an alleyway filled with bricks and metal Thursday. According to Senior Code Enforcement Officer Wayne Kidney, a leaky gutter caused the back wall to fall off 46-48 Front St. Kidney said after repeated freezing and thawing overnight, the weight of the metal fire escape attached to the back wall most likely collapsed it. Business owners discovered the collapse Thursday morning. Kidney said the H&R Block at 50-52 Front St. temporarily will be vacated pending a decision on the damaged building. Kidney said it was in foreclosure and had been vacant for more than a year. The building likely will be razed.

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http://www.gazette.com/news/forcing-134031-road-detour.html

Road collapses, forcing closure of U.S. Highway 24

February 23, 2012 12:25 PM

A temporary detour road collapsed Thursday morning, forcing the closure of U.S. Highway 24 between Falcon and Peyton. The road is expected to be closed at least until Friday.

The road's collapse was not related to Thursday morning's snowfall, according to El Paso County Engineer Andre Brackin, who consulted with Colorado Department of Transportation officials.

Eastbound travelers on Highway 24 are being directed to detour by going east on Judge Orr Road and then north on Peyton Highway. According to CDOT's website, Highway 24 is closed between milemarkers 322-327.

Highway 24 was closed at 7:50 a.m., according to CDOT's website.

"We had this detour plan already in place just in case it was needed for whatever reason," Brackin said.

The short section of two-lane detour road that collapsed was being used while the bridge halfway between Falcon and Peyton -- commonly known as the "Green Bridge" -- is being rebuilt over a tributary of Black Squirrel Creek.

Lawrence Construction is building the new bridge, Brackin said.

"The detour ride around where the bridge is being constructed is paved and it's less than a mile long," Brackin said. "My guess is the collapse had nothing to do with the snowstorm. When the snow is gone -- whether it has to be removed or melts -- is when the road will be repaired. The state is dealing with the problem. It's probably a 24-hour job to fix the detour road."

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Swafford: Wind ‘Contributing Factor’ in Hangar Collapse

The collapse injured two workers and will push back the completion date of the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport’s under-construction hangar.

Wind may have played a factor in the collapse Wednesday of an under-construction hangar that led to the injuries of two construction workers.

Blake Swafford, director of the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport, said crews with Superior Foundations and Steel Erection had begun erecting the hangar’s steel Monday. The collapse injured two workers with Superior Foundations; Swafford said the two originally were taken to Paulding WellStar Hospital, with one possibly later taken to WellStar Kennestone in Marietta.

“One was conscious and talking when he left the site, the other one, I don’t believe, was conscious,” Swafford said.

Neither Swafford nor officials with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, who first responded to the scene, were able to provide the names of the injured workers.

“[The crew] had started erecting the steel on Monday, so they had two and a half days worth of work in erecting the steel, had close to half the building up,” Swafford said. “[They] had some gusts of wind, and it unfortunately collapsed on them.

 “Wind, obviously, is a contributing factor. I don’t know if it’s the only thing—[Occupational Safety and Health Administration] will do an investigation, probably the structural engineer that designed the building, as well as the company that provided the steel … we’ve called an independent investigator as well, so it will be studied and investigated to the best of our ability to figure out exactly what happened why it happened and hopefully not have an issue like that again.”

Swafford said after the collapse, he checked the weather conditions, which showed wind gusts of 17 mph.

“It could’ve easily been twice that earlier today,” he added. “We’re up at the top of a little mountain ridge here, and we do get a significant amount of wind gusts—it’s not unusual at all for us to have wind gusts in the 20-to-25-mph range. I would not have thought that that would exceed what the building could withstand. Buildings are designed to a maximum wind load once they’re completely erected and completely put together, so during the construction process they’re obviously more vulnerable. The company that provided the steel is I’m sure going to do an analysis to see what wind load it should have been able to accommodate at that stage in the construction, so maybe we’ll know at that point whether it was just wind or if there were other factors.”

Cpl. Ashley Henson with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said deputies arrived at the airport after receiving a call about the collapse about 12:45 p.m. Deputies remained on the scene for several hours as officials awaited for OSHA officials and structural engineers to arrive.

Swafford said the collapse would delay completion of the hangar’s construction for an undetermined amount of time.

“This is the new hangar we’ve been building in partnership with our [fixed-based operator], the Paulding Jet Center,” he said. “[It’s a] 35,000-square-foot hangar, so it would accommodate much, much larger airplanes than the first set of hangars we built. It was scheduled to be completed in March—the project was already a little bit behind schedule because of some issues that we had with the foundation when the foundation was poured.

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House on Cawthra Road in Mississauga collapses

Published 7 minutes ago

Peel Regional Police are investigating a house collapse at on Cawthra Rd. near Bloor St. in Mississauga on Wednesday morning.

The house, which was built in the 1940s, was undergoing construction when for unknown reasons, it collapsed to the ground.

Three construction workers were at the scene at 8:30 a.m. when it happened, but were not inside the building and escaped what could have been serious injuries.

After the collapse, Mississauga firefighters were on scene and detected the smell of gas, prompting a visit from Enbridge Gas and the temporary evacuation of two nearby homes.

Toula Kalantzakos, a resident on the street for 28 years, never saw a problem with the house in the past.

“It’s a nice house,” she said. “I saw some construction at the back. I think they were making it bigger.”

The now site belongs to Olympia Windows and Doors, a company that specializes in windows for older and heritage homes. The company renovated the house at 3447 Cawthra Rd. in 1991 and converted the lot to Olympia’s showroom and office.

The company is owned by Emilio Lavignasse and his wife. He said he was too busy for an interview.

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Subway Construction Suspected in Incheon Street Collapse

February 20, 2012 2 Comments

Police are investigating a road which has collapsed above a subway construction site in Incheon. On the 18th of February at 3:20pm, the center of a six lane road collapsed in front of an apartment building in Wanggil-dong, a suburb in the western district of Incheon. Sadly, a 50 year old man riding a motorcycle over the piece of road at the time of collapse fell into the hole but died several hours later in hospital. Water was cut to several thousand households in Wanggil-dong and neighbouring Oryu-dong, but was restored later that night. Police are focusing on CCTV footage and have maintained a detour around the site while carrying out their investigation.

Below the road, the tunnel for Incheon’s line number 2 was being dug out and police suspect that construction somehow caused the road foundations to become weak. Construction on Incheon’s second line began in June 2009 and is expected to be completed in 2014. Wanggil-dong is located on the northern part of the subway line which will continue south and provide new rail access to the many areas of Incheon still without it. Depending on the results of the investigation into the incident, Incheon may see itself having to wait even longer for the new line. Incheon’s first inner city subway was opened in 1999.

Watch out for a more detailed post on Incheon’s Line 2 in the future.

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9-year-old killed in wall collapse

Nitasha Natu, TNN | Feb 21, 2012, 12.52AM IST

MUMBAI: A nine-year-old boy was killed after the compound wall of a 32-year-old building collapsed on him in Dahisar (E) on Monday. The victim, Prathamesh Mahadik, was walking on a common path between the building and a chawl where he stayed on DN Dube Road when the incident took place around 4.20pm.

The Dahisar police have written to the BMC to ascertain if negligence charges can be applied in the case. As of now, an accidental death case has been registered. Prathamesh, a Std III student of St Xavier's school in Dahisar (E), . His father Gajana, ran a lottery tickets store. The family stayed at Arjun Mandal chawl. "The compound wall belonged to Jayant Patan Mandal building," which was constructed in 1979," . The five-feet high wall fenced a 1500 square feet ground and was dilapidated. It suddenly gave way while Prathamesh was walking down a common between the building and the chawl," investigating officer Deepak Girkar said. As Sunday was his day off, Prathamesh's mother had sent him to a neighbouring shop to buy tea along with his sister Riya (6), who escaped unhurt as she was walking way ahead of him. Prathamesh was rushed to the Bhagwati Hospital after Riya summoned their neighbours. Doctors declared him dead at the hospital. Prathamesh had sustained severe head injuries besides internal injuries and there was immense blood loss, doctors said.

Officials from the BMC and the fire brigade visited the spot.

The BMC will conduct an inquiry into the incident.

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5 hurt in building collapse

Staff Reporter

The Hindu An old residential building on Ekambareswarar Koil, Agraharam Street in Park Town that collapsed on Monday morning. Five persons were injured in the incident. Photo: R. Ragu

A house in Park Town, said to be over 100 years old, collapsed partially on Monday morning injuring five persons, including the owner. Police said the condition of the injured persons is stable. The wife of the owner, who was inside the building, escaped unhurt.

The accident occurred at 11.45 a.m. when a portion of the wall on the first floor of the house belonging to Hansraj (75), located on Ekambareswarar Koil, Agraharam Street in Mahaveer Market, came down crashing.

“The huge wall came down in a second and a tempo driver walking on the road was trapped under the debris. Other sections of the building followed suit,” said V. Siva, an employee of a shop in the market, who witnessed the incident.

Bystanders and shopkeepers rushed in and pulled out the man, later identified as Durairaj (35) who had parked his vehicle in the market and was walking towards a shop, Siva said.

Elephant Gate police said a few workers were involved in demolishing a section of the house.

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Published on Monday 20 February 2012 07:40

Man trapped in Northampton home during gas leak as cracks appear across ceiling and walls

A TENANT was trapped in his home with a gas leak in his cellar and a house that was starting to cave in, after an electricity sub-station next door began to sink.

The sub-station, in St Edmund’s Road, Northampton town centre, had wide cracks at the top of an outer wall yesterday and another running almost the height of the back wall after subsidence caused the foundations to shift on Saturday morning.

Hein Swart, aged 34, said he was woken by the sound of his home cracking under strain from the adjacent building but was unable to get out the front door.

He said: “I thought it was kids on the roof or something, but I went downstairs and saw cracks all along the ceiling, one an inch wide, and more across the walls.

“I went to get out the door straight away but the wall had pushed down on it and it wouldn’t open,” he told the Chron.

“I could hear the fire brigade outside say they were going to kick the door in but I had to tell him that wasn’t such a good idea, given what it was supporting.”

On eventually getting outside – his back garden has no access to a main road – the firefighter, who had begun to evacuate Mr Swart’s neighbours, detected a strong smell of gas and police were called to close off the road.

Firefighters later found that the cellars of Mr Swart’s home and three others were filled with gas as the subsidence had ruptured a main pipe underground.

Jim Dorrell, the Mereway station manger, said: “When there is electricity and gas together, there is always a danger of an explosion so we evacuated people and called out the utility companies to make sure people were safe.

“The gas main can’t be turned off like a water pipe so they let it leak out into the atmosphere where it is harmless to reduce the levels.

“You can have too much gas for an explosion or too little and we were trying to keep it out of that dangerous middle ground.”

The partial collapse also caused an underground water leak so workers from all three utilities were called out by fire crews.

Others workmen erected scaffolding to safeguard against further collapse of the substation, which serves a number of businesses in the town centre.

Police said early indications were that the closure of St Edmund’s Road could last for several days, with disruption to traffic in the immediate area, although evacuated residents were believed to be allowed home by last night.

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Lober fire station in Sewickley Township partially collapses

Sunday, February 19, 2012

A fire station in Sewickley Township partially collapsed on Thursday night.

Lowber fire Chief Brian Nicholls said the building on Lowber Road had structural damage, but no one was injured in the collapse.

The fire department was holding a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the damage, he said.

Nicholls would not provide any further details about the collapse, including the cause or the extent of damage.

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