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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Towering inferno: Britons among hundreds evacuated as fire rips through one of the world's tallest residential buildings in Dubai

• Flaming debris is seen falling from the skyscraper in video of the blaze
• Fire started on 50th floor and spread to at least 15 storeys, reports say
• The building is 336.1m (1,105 ft) tall and has 79 storeys above ground

Britons have told of their terror as hundreds of residents were evacuated from one of the world's tallest residential buildings after it was engulfed in flames in the early hours of this morning in Dubai.

Pictures and video footage showed a large blaze ripping through multiple floors of the Marina Torch tower, a new tower in the expat-heavy Marina district of the city.

More than a dozen fire trucks were able to extinguish the blaze several hours after the fire alarm went off around 2am local time.

A witness told Reuters flames shot out from two sides of the building as glass and metal rained down from near the summit of the 79-storey skyscraper, which stands more 330 metres tall (1,105 ft).

A massive blaze ripped through multiple storeys of the 79-storey Marina Torch tower in Dubai early Saturday.

One British woman, who was sleeping in her boyfriend's apartment on the 72nd floor when the fire broke out, told MailOnline: 'We just thought it was a false alarm at first, so left it for a couple of minutes as it went off at 2am, then when it didn't stop we realised we needed to go down.

'The lifts weren't working so we had to walk down 72 flights of stairs with everyone, that took about 10 minutes as there were people carrying their children and babies and people who just weren't fit enough to get down the stairs.

'We got to the lobby and there were the firefighters but we couldn't exit at first because there were bits of the outside building falling to the floor at the door which were still on fire.

'Then they ran us out in little groups to across the street. And when we got outside we noticed that one of the corners was on fire and was spreading up the building.

'We were just trying to run as quick as we could.' 

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Although the title is labelled mudslide I'm posting here to road collapse. 

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Mudslide closes Highway 6 west of Needles

Highway 6 just west of Needles Ferry Landing has been damaged by mudslide. Single lane traffic is being diverted onto a logging road to bypass the damaged portion.

— Image Credit: Tasha Hall

• posted Feb 18, 2015 at 11:00 AM

Mild temperatures at this time of year have begun to wreak havoc on local roads. The section of Highway 6 one kilometer from the Needles ferry landing  has been closed by crews, effectively cutting the town of Edgewood off from services in Nakusp.

Tasha Hall, photographer and employee at the lumber yard was able to get closer to the damage by asking if she could get in to take photos and spoke with the Arrow Lakes News this morning.

“We were hearing rumblings from some of the drivers starting yesterday, people said they were flying over it (the uneven section of the road) and getting air.”  According to Hall, who works just a few minutes from the site, drivers can still get on the ferry in either direction. They are alternating single lane traffic on the logging road which parallels the highway- but even that could be a hazard.

“You can see the sloughing away along the logging road. The guys said that they are hoping to keep the logging road open for now” Hall said. She estimates about bout 10 crew members are on site assessing the damage and directing traffic.

“The damage is extensive, the water is running under the road. That much damage happened in the last 10 hours and the road is just broken.”

The cracks are 200 feet long. The damage is extensive and may end up with the highway sliding away completely.

“The Geotech is out there right now and we are still waiting for them to make an assessment. It will be updated on the DriveBC website immediately and it only takes 15 minutess for it all to filter through but we hope to have another update at noon,” said a spokesperson for the YRB during a telephone interview with the Arrow Lakes News.

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Panic in Skikda after the collapse of a road

18 February, 2015 01:30:00

Algiers- The inhabitants of Abdelhamid Bouteldja neighborhood in Skikda woke up yesterday morning in great panic after the collapse of a part of the main road along the great Mosque, following torrential rains that fell during the night from Monday to Tuesday.

Residents blocked the road to denounce the dramatic situation caused by the rains on several houses on the road, where the water level has reached more than 1.5 m height, according to residents who said they had to spend the night outside.

These call for a sewerage system and protection against flooding. The Mayor of Skikda tried to calm the protesters by promising to support their claims.

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Building under construction collapses in northern India, killing 13 family members

February 15, 2015 06:08 AM

LUCKNOW, India - A building under rushed construction in a northern Indian town collapsed overnight, killing 13 members of a family of weavers who were sleeping on the ground floor, police said Sunday.

Three people escaped unhurt when the partially built structure crashed down in the town of Mughalsarai, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) southeast of Uttar Pradesh's state capital of Lucknow.

"People were buried alive" when the building came down, police Superintendent Chandauli Muniraj said.

Twelve people died at the scene, Muniraj said. Two others were taken to a hospital, but one died there.

Muniraj said the building was being constructed in a hurry. "Within a month, they built two stories," he said. "We will investigate the cause of the collapse."

Hundreds of people gathered to watch bulldozers digging into the broken bricks and debris in search for bodies on Sunday. The victims included the building's owner, Mohammad Kamarrudin, and members of his family, including two children under 8 years old, Muniraj said.

Building collapses are common in India, where high housing demand and lax regulations have encouraged some builders to cut corners, use substandard materials or add unauthorized floors.

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Updated: High winds bring Manassas building collapse, brush fires in Stafford

by Potomac Local on February 14, 2015 at 10:24 pm Leave a Comment

[Photo: Manassas Volunteer Fire Company]

Update 11:20 p.m.

A total of 14 people were evacuated from nearby apartments in Downtown Manassas near the scene of the partial building collapse on Battle Street.

City spookeswoman Patty Prince said the evacuation was precautionary and that no one was hurt when a portion of a brick building gave way in the face of high winds. No one was injured. 

Original post 

A portion of a building collapsed this evening in Downtown Manassas.

A building on Battle Street, next to the old Washington Post offices, now The Bone restaurant, and near the Sidewalk Café, lost a portion of its roof, according to initial reports.

Winds gusting upward of 4o mph Saturday evening were to the blame for the partial collapse, according to a source. The portion of the building affected was unoccupied and no one was injured, according to a source. 

Manassas fire crews posted that responded to the scene posted photos.

High winds also wreaked havoc on area roads. An SUV traveling in the Hillendale section of Dale City overturned, according to sources. We don’t know if anyone was injured in the crash. 

In Stafford County, high winds caused a transformer to blow darkening a portion of Route 610. A brush fire also broke out in the area of Mount Hope Road and was later extinguished. 

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One killed, two injured in building collapse

Updated: February 13, 2015 05:41 IST  

The shopping complex in Belagavi which collapsed in the early hours of Thursday.— PHOTO: D.B. PATIL

One person was killed and two others injured when a nearly 40-year-old commercial complex of the Belagavi City Corporation on Shivaji Road collapsed in the early hours of Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as Vinayak Shivaji Patkar (45). Srikant Sadashiv Kamble and Balu Ningappa Ningoji, who were injured, have been shifted to the district government hospital for treatment.

According to Executive Engineer (Civil-South) of the corporation Laxmi M. Sulagekar, who rushed to the spot with her staff, the building collapsed around 1.45 a.m.

The three were sleeping in a tin-shed restaurant on the first floor of the complex.

Six shops on the ground floor and the restaurant “Mirchi Cola” on the first floor collapsed. The victims were stated to be workers at the restaurant.

There are 21 shops on the ground floor and eight slots of open space have been leased out to private persons. The lease of the ground floor and the first floor expired in 1994 and 2008, respectively. The responsibility of maintenance was on the shop owners during the period of lease. But, the shops continued to operate. The officials could not immediately confirm whether they entered into fresh lease with the show owners. The shops, which were constructed by the corporation, were modified with encroachments on the slab of the rainwater drain, which also collapsed.

The corporation had leased 3,000 sqft open space on the first floor the open space to an individual, who had built a tin-shed roof and other provisions for the restaurant.

Police said all the three persons had escaped with minor injuries after the building collapsed. But Vinayak went inside to take a personal belonging and came under the debris. A case has been registered with the Khade Bazaar Police Station and further investigation taken up.

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Historic Casablanca Hotel Lincoln collapses, kills one: reports

Monday, 9 February 2015

One person was killed and two were injured in Casablanca on Monday when part of the city's historic but derelict Hotel Lincoln collapsed, local officials and Moroccan media said.

A 34-year-old man died in the dawn incident at the hotel, which is technically a listed building despite been derelict for two decades. 

The local Economist news site said another two people were injured in the collapse. 

Parts of the Lincoln, of which only part of the original facade remains standing, have been occupied by homeless people.

However, authorities said all those living in the building at the time of the collapse were found “safe and sound”.

Built in 1917 by French architect Hubert Bride, the hotel came to symbolise the Art Deco era that shaped several buildings in the heart of Morocco's economic capital.

Development and property speculation have since reshaped the city and preservationists are increasingly concern about what the fate of the crumbling French colonial facades, neo-Moorish details and Art Deco hotels.

The president of a local conservation group, Rachid al-Andaloussi, told AFP there were plans to save the hotel but that the issue “needs to be made a priority.”

This month, a Casablanca court jailed seven people for two to five years for their role in the deaths of 23 residents when three apartment blocks in the city collapsed in July 2014.

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Two dead, three injured after building collapses in Kakamega By Jackline Inyanji and Wilkister Alao Updated Thursday, February 5th 2015 at 12:11 GMT +3
Kenya: Two people on Wednesday died and three others were injured after a building under construction collapsed in Milimani Estate in Kakamega. Over 20 workers who were at the construction site next to Kakamega State Lodge escaped with injuries when a building adjacent to the site collapsed on Wednesday afternoon.
The workers are said to have been constructing a hotel when disaster struck. The owner of the plot, a businessman based in Nairobi, was not present during the accident.
An eye witness, Richard Ouma said 23 people were working at the construction site before a slab which had been demolished to pave way for the new building collapsed and injured five people who were digging the foundation. “Two people have been confirmed dead, three are in critical condition and have been rushed to Kakamega General Hospital,” Ouma said. See also: Police look for 'abortion doctor' accused of murder Kakamega Central OCPD Richard Ngetich confirmed the incident and said investigations were ongoing to establish the exact course of the accident. "We are still carrying out investigations to establish the cause of the collapse before we issue a report," Ngetich said. Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya sent condolences to the families of the bereaved and cautioned those found building without necessary county approvals saying action will be taken against them. "We have immediately launched investigations into the incident. But first the police should arrest the owner of the building for failing to ensure safety of the workers," Oparanya said. He was accompanied by County Executive in charge of Housing Suleiman Sumba.

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 8 hurt from Taguig building collapse

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

MANILA -- Eight people were hurt after the upper ground floor of a high-end condominium building in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City collapsed on Wednesday morning.

Taguig City Police chief Art Asis said a portion of The Suites, which gave in around 8:20 a.m., is currently under construction.

The incident caused minor injuries to eight construction workers who were immediately brought to St. Luke's Medical Center Global City for treatment.

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Mall’s road collapses due to adjacent condo construction

JANUARY 31, 2015

A portion of the road leading to Abreeza Mall here in Davao City collapsed Saturday morning.

The ongoing construction of a high-rise condominium adjacent to the mall is being suspected as the reason behind the collapse which luckily happened before the mall’s opening hours.

Luigi Escano, Operations Manager of the Abreea Mall, said that the incident happened around eight in the morning of January 31.

Several meters of the road beside the ongoing Aeon Towers construction collapsed.

September of last year, this same portion of the road also subsided. Escano said the management of Aeon Towers shouldered the minor repairs made on the road that time.

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