Collapsing Buildings and Roadways

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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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Road collapse in Middleburg, FL.

May 12th, 2015

 

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-rushed-to-hosp...

Woman rushed to hospital after giant billboard falls from a wall in Tooting crushing her underneath it

The woman suffered leg and hip injuries and has been taken to St George’s Hospital 

A woman has been rushed to hospital after she was crushed when a large advertising billboard fell from a wall.

Witnesses heard a “thunderous noise” before the giant display structure tore off the wall and trapped the woman underneath it, only just missing her head.

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4 escape building collapse in Silver Spring

2:04 p.m. EDT May 12, 2015

SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA9) -- Four workers escaped from a house that collapsed in Silver Spring Tuesday afternoon, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue said.

Four workers escaped from a house that collapsed in Silver Spring Tuesday afternoon. (Photo: Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)

The structure collapse happened in the 800 block of Easley Street, Pete Piringer Chief Spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue tweeted. The building was being renovated, officials said. Only the porch and basement survived the collapse.

All occupants of the building were able to get out and have been accounted for. Nobody was injured.

[Howard]

Stage with 80 Singers Suddenly Collapses During Performance in China (May 10)

Stage suddenly collapses with 80-person choir at Bijie Bijie City Theatre.

Accident has killed six people, with two others seriously injured.

Cause of the accident is under investigation.

Source

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a19_1431246500

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Wall collapse in eastern China kills 10 workers

BEIJING (AP) — Ten workers were killed after a retaining wall under construction suddenly collapsed in the eastern province of Shandong, authorities said Sunday.

Six people were killed on the spot, and four others died in the hospital, according to a statement posted on the Lanling municipal government's website. Three others were in stable condition.

Police were investigating the collapse that took place Saturday on the ground of a local transportation company, the statement said.

Work safety incidents are common in China, where regulations and procedures are routinely ignored.

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http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Collapsed-Retaining-Wall-Sparks-...

Update: CSFD Stops Gas Leak Caused by Collapsed Retaining Wall

Updated: Sun 6:18 PM, May 10, 2015

 

UPDATE: 6:16 p.m.

CSFD says a retaining wall that fell on one of the Phil Long car Dealerships Sunday afternoon was somewhere around 45,000 lbs.

It happened around 1:00 p.m. off Motor City Drive.

CSFD responded to a call of someone smelling natural gas and a retaining wall collapse.

The wall's collapse actually hit a gas line, causing an active gas leak. 
Crews were able to get to the meter and shut it down.

Colorado Springs Utilities came out to make sure there were no more gas leaks.

Monday a structural engineer will evaluate the building and determine when they can re-open for business.

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The Colorado Springs fire department is on scene where a retaining wall is collapsing.

HAZMAT was called out leaking gas due to the collapse. They stopped the leak and say no more gas is leaking at this time.

The collapse happened at 1338 Motor City Drive in Colorado Springs. The road is closed in the area.

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Residents of Chinese city baffled as ground mysteriously opens up and large sections of asphalt crumble into the crevasse

• Remarkable pictures show the moment a road collapsed in Chinese city
• Large sections of road and traffic lights sank, causing travel disruptions
• Burst water mains then flooded the surrounding area, adding to the chaos
• Officials have now promised to investigate how and why it collapsed

PUBLISHED: 11:08 EST, 5 May 2015 | UPDATED: 11:37 EST, 5 May 2015

Residents of the Chinese city of Guangzhou have been left baffled after the ground mysteriously opened up yesterday, collapsing large sections of road and causing traffic chaos.

Remarkable pictures taken at the scene of the subsidence in southern China show several sections of road having collapsed into the ground.

The incident caused no casualties, but traffic lights, a pedestrian crossing and large swathes of asphalt all crumbled, while burst water pipes flooded over the sections of road left above ground level, according to The People's Daily Online.

Officials and residents were left scratching their heads as to why the road suddenly collapsed

A large section of road sunk into the ground when the land subsidence occurred yesterday

Crowds quickly gathered to look at the chaotic scene (left) as a traffic light was left hanging precariously (right)

Qi Huaien, deputy mayor of Baiyun District, said experts had been called in to identify the cause of the collapse.

There were suspicions cavities under the road had given way due to the recent heavy rainfall.

Large crowds gathered to look at the hole that opened up in the road, while nearby workers shouted at them to stand back.

Not only was the road damaged in the collapse but the burst water pipes added to the problems, as the holes grew larger as time went by and by 4pm, new pits were appearing.

There were two construction sites nearby - one for the construction of a local footbridge and the other for the construction of a new metro station.

However, the metro station site had not yet started digging so it was unlikely to have anything to do with the road collapse.

Workers from the footbridge construction site told reporters that their work was also unrelated to the collapse, with one unnamed worker telling the deputy mayor they had not worked at all the past few days.

Mr Qi told reporters he had called in experts to identify the cause of the road collapse, but the immediate priority was for it to be repaired.

An official from the Baiyun District Construction Department, Mr Liu, told reporters that once the local flooding had cleared they would work to identify the cause and then repair the damaged road.

Mr Liu added that surveyors had been working on site but the chances that it would affect the safety of nearby buildings was low.

An unnamed expert on the scene said: 'The nearby buildings have good foundations so they are unlikely to be affected. However, the buildings without foundations may see some problems.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3068794/Heavy-rainfall-dest...

Many fascinating Getty images in link

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Two workers survive 30-foot fall in Midtown building collapse

POSTED 8:18 PM, MAY 1, 2015,

ST. LOUIS (KPLR) – Demolition workers almost lost their lives Friday when a three-story building in Midtown partially collapsed – with them standing on top of it.

The former apartment building is located on West Pine near Vandeventer. It was being torn down just after 11 a.m. when the front wall and part of the roof came crashing down below. Two men were atop the roof, trying to salvage bricks.

One man ended up buried under bricks on the first floor. The other man was buried in the basement.

And it not for a lot of help and plenty of luck, the story might have had a very different ending.

Remarkably, neither man was seriously injured. They were both able to walk away from the scene of the collapse under their own power.

City building inspectors and representatives from OSHA each visited the site Friday morning.

Workers are speculating the weight of the bricks was too much for the front wall because it had too many large windows, which some believe were added to the house decades after it had been built.

Bellon Wrecking, the company contracted to do the demolition, had no comment on the incident.

Workers were taken to an area hospital and are being treated for their injuries.  The cause of the collapse is under investigation.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/1-person-trapped...

Posted May 1, 2015 - 8:58am

1 person trapped in collapse at Watergate parking garage

The Watergate hotel and condominium complex pictured on the Potomac River in Washington, June 17, 2002. (Reuters/Hyungwon Kang, file)

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REUTERS

WASHINGTON — Three floors of a parking garage at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., collapsed on Friday, reportedly trapping at least one person, local authorities and media reported.

The structure suffered a “pancake collapse,” according to a Twitter posting from Washington fire fighters. The complex, made famous by the 1972 political scandal chronicled in the book and movie “All the President’s Men,” is undergoing renovations.

Oscar Mendez, a spokesman for the D.C. Fire and EMS Department, said authorities received reports of one person trapped.

Mendez said units were dispatched around 10 a.m. to the complex, located several blocks from the U.S. State Department. The city’s fire department said the road near the complex had been closed.

Two local news outlets reported one person had been injured.

Representatives for the Watergate could not be immediately reached for comment.

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North Philly Building Collapses While Under Construction

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Updated 23 minutes ago

Crews rushed to a North Philly street Tuesday after a building, which was under construction, crumbled to the ground.

Police said the front of the structure on north 18th Street near Page Street gave way just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.

City workers had reportedly been working at the site to convert the property for use as student housing for the university.

Police said an adjacent building was evacuated after it also was damaged by the collapse.

Utility crews were sent to the scene due to downed power lines.