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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3 dead, 5 injured in Olenguruone building collapse

13 November - 22:42

At least three people died on Thursday morning and more than five people injured after a wall of a building collapsed near the Olenguruone Olive petrol station in Olenguruone town.

Police said the victims were hit by flying materials after the wall crashed onto the streets before the injured victims were pulled from debris and taken to hospital.

Olenguruone OCPD Samuel Mburu said the collapse may have been caused by poor construction but was quick to note that they were yet to find out the actual cause.

“We have called house construction experts to check on what caused the incident,” said a police officer.

Witnesses said they heard a loud bang before the wall came down in the morning while workers were inside. Then other workers nearby rushed to the scene and raised an alarm.

Police officers moved in haste disperse crowds to facilitate the rescue of victims by using a crane to remove debris.

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Buildings collapse onto Wirral street sparks massive emergency operation

• Nov 12, 2014 22:33

• Residents in adjoining homes were forced to evacuate when two buildings collapsed into rubble without warning

• Two derelict council owned buildings in a terraced row collapsed into a Merseyside street.

  No one was reported as trapped or injured after the properties fell into King Street,Wallasey at around 7.30pm.

  Residents in the terrace, between Rudgrave Place and Glenalmond Road, were evacuated and fire and rescue dogs searched the rubble as a precaution.

  At 10.30pm, Merseyside Fire and Rescue was working with National Grid to make sure the gas supply was  isolated.

  It was unclear when residents would be able to return, and many spoke of their shock.

  Eric Robertson, who lives next door to the collapsed building, told the ECHO: “I was watching Coronation Street when I heard what sounded like a ceiling collapsing and creaking.

  “Then there was a massive crash I felt the building shake.

  “I came out to the front and saw the front of the shop next door lying on the pavement.

  “The whole of the top two storeys had disappeared along with the roof and I saw an ambulance passing by.

  “I asked the driver to call the police and he said they were on their way.

  “When the police arrived, they started evacuating people from the area.”

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The site in Stockholm where the building collapsed. Photo: TT

Two dead in Stockholm wall collapse

Published: 04 Nov 2014 10:33 GMT+01:00
Updated: 04 Nov 2014 12:33 GMT+01:00

A wall on a building site where a power plant was being built has collapsed, killing two people and seriously injuring another.

Emergency services were called to the scene at around 9am on Tuesday after a wall estimated to weigh up to 50 tonnes collapsed in the Jägmästargaten area where energy company Fortum was building a new power plant.

 

Three people were hurt. Two died and another has been taken to Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm.

 

Around 800 people work on the site and most staff have been sent home for the day.

 

The identities of the dead have not been revealed. According to the TT news agency, their families have yet to be informed.

 

A large part of the site has been sealed off.

 

Since 2010 at least 200 people have died of injuries sustained at work in Sweden, including 42 deaths in the construction industry.

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5-storey building falls, techie dies

The body of the software engineer extricated from the debris (Source: Express photo by Arul Horizon)

Express News Service | Pune | Posted: November 1, 2014 4:01 am

Residents of five-storey Pitaram Complex in Narhe village had a narrow escape in the early hours of Friday, when the building collapsed killing a young software engineer who had alerted them to save their lives.

Residents said they had detected cracks on walls over the last few days. A resident said they raised the matter with the building supervisor on Thursday. But nobody thought the building would collapse as construction was hardly done over a year ago. The deceased, Sandeep Mohite (29), was a resident of 503, and stayed with his parents. His sister and brother-in-law lived in flat 504.

Sandeep’s father Dilip Mohite (57) said, “Sandeep noticed something like an earthquake around 3 am and raised an alarm. Soon, we rushed down and saw huge cracks on walls. My wife, son, daughter, son-in-law and I moved out. Sandeep went to the basement where we had parked our car and a motorbike. He was about to come out with the car when the building collapsed,” said Dilip.

“We never expected the building to collapse as it was constructed hardly a year ago. We shifted just three months back,” he added. Kalpesh Shah, who lives nearby, informed police and fire brigade around 3.10 am. Police teams, fire brigade and government officials rushed to the spot. All residents, except Sandeep and a woman and a child from from one Gupta family were not accounted for. Initially, we though three persons were stuck in debris. Later, police contacted the Guptas who had left a day earlier. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and fire brigade teams intensified efforts to rescue Sandeep.

Cranes were pressed into action. Around 5 pm,  they reached the spot in the basement where Sandeep was lying unconscious in his car. After he was brought out doctors pronounced him dead. Post-mortem reports confirmed he died due to suffocation.

Police said there were about 20 apartments and eight were occupied by families. Some were flat owners while others were tenants. Police said the building was constructed by Kishorbhai Pitambar Vadgama of V K Associates and the owner of the land was Ranjit Desai.
Government officials confirmed that the building violated construction norms. Officials said the builder did not follow norms and added an extra floor without permission, on weak foundation.

Additional commissioner of police Chandrashekhar Daithankar said, “We detained the builder for inquiry. Investigation will be done to check irregularities in construction.” The process of lodging an offence was on at Sinhagad police station late on Friday.

Prakash Yadav, who was living in flat 502 with his family on rent said, “We heard unusual noise around 3 am. We thought it was an earthquake. We tried to move out. But the door was not opening. So we kicked at the door hard. As soon as the door opened,

we moved out and the building collapsed within seconds. We could see cracks developing and widening as we were stepping down the stairs. We are in a state of shock. All our belongings are stuck in debris.” Chief Fire Officer Prashant Ranpise said, “A team of 40 firemen and four fire tenders were pressed into action around 3.30 am. The work of removing the rubble is still on.” S Ahmed, assistant commandant, NDRF said, “Our three teams were involved in rescue operations since 5.30 am. We used advanced equipment. We called off the operation around 7.30 pm.” 

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Portion of southwest Houston Buddhist temple collapses

Published On: Oct 30 2014 06:07:48 AM CDT   Updated On: Oct 30 2014 07:05:02 PM CDT

HOUSTON -

Police closed off a Buddhist temple in southwest Houston after a portion of the building collapsed Thursday morning.

The sacred prayer room has been sectioned off after the roof collapsed at the Vietnam Buddhist Temple.

"I tried to calm myself down, and accept what I see and hear, without negative reaction because whatever happened, happened already," said Buddhist monk Thich Dao Quang.

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According to officers, an alarm went off at around 1:45 a.m. Thursday at the temple on Synott near Old Richmond. Resident monks don't start praying until around 4:30 a.m., so no one was inside when the roof fell.

"I feel very, very sad, but it is a Buddha blessing that nobody was in there," said Thu Thao Dang.

The entire compound spans 20 acres. The members spent years raising funds to build the portion of the worship center that has stood for 14 years.

"This area is very important, over 100 people pray every Sunday," said Quang.

Although the building has significant damage, they plan to rebuild.

"No one got hurt. Being a Buddhist monk, the most important thing is damage to spiritual life and damage to emotional, but I think with the community support we can rebuild," said Quang.

According to the district chief of the Houston Fire Department, structural engineers were expected to arrive at the temple sometime Thursday to assess the damage and try to determine what caused the collapse.

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Shoulder collapse closes lane on I-80 in Council Bluffs

POSTED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 4:00 PM

 

Erosion alongside westbound Interstate 80 in Council Bluffs caused a 20-foot panel of the shoulder to partially collapse sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

The collapse took place between the exit for Mall of the Bluffs and the east interchange with Interstate 29.

Iowa transportation workers shut down a lane to make the repair about 9 a.m. Thursday. Traffic in both westbound lanes was open and flowing again at 4:30 p.m.

Workers removed the sagging concrete panel, filled in the hole with dirt and poured hot asphalt to form a new section of shoulder, said Troy Jerman, the Iowa Department of Transportation’s district engineer for southwest Iowa.

Jerman said heavy rains overnight likely caused the erosion and triggered the collapse. Council Bluffs received roughly ¾ to 1 inch of rain Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

With heavier rains than normal this year, erosion has been a bigger problem than usual along western Iowa’s highways, he said. There has been a quite a bit of erosion between Council Bluffs and Atlantic on U.S. Highway 6, Jerman said, but repairs shouldn’t cause workers to close lanes.

This incident follows two holes that formed in the Interstate system in Council Bluffs, where the freeways are being rebuilt in a massive decade-long project.

Thursday’s collapsed shoulder was not in the construction zone, and Jerman said it was unrelated to the other holes, which both occurred near where pipes had been installed.

In October 2013, the eastbound lanes of I-80 east of the 24th Street exit were shut down for about 12 hours after a construction crew installing a drainage pipe encountered a hole directly underneath the roadway. The shoulder crumbled and the traffic lanes appeared imperiled, but they did not cave in. Workers repaired the roadway.

Then in May, a large hole formed in the median of I-80 near Horseshoe Casino after a spell of heavy rains and several weeks after a contractor had installed a temporary storm sewer pipe. Workers shut down and tore out a portion of the eastbound lanes to make the repair

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Newly repaired stretch of road collapses again

A road in Hangzhou, the provincial capital, collapsed for a second time on Saturday soon after it had been repaired following the earlier incident, Today Morning Express reported on Monday. The affected area measured 500 square meters, and the collapse was caused by water damage to a basement wall beneath the road. No one was injured, and repair work has begun again. The road collapsed for the first time in May.

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Crews attempt to stabilize crumbling building in French Quarter

Updated: Oct 22, 2014 12:39 PM EDT

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) -

Bricks continue to block Royal Street Wednesday morning following a partial building collapse in the heart of the French Quarter.

Royal remains blocked between Dumaine and St. Ann following the collapse around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of Royal Street. The area is closed to vehicles and pedestrians until further notice.

Firefighters and code enforcement officers spent Wednesday morning assessing the building from the outside and above. The New Orleans Fire Department states that the collapse triggered a gas and water leak. Utility crews were quickly on scene Tuesday to shut off both.

Neighbors say that the building appeared neglected.

“I've been in the building many times. Just imagine stepping into a time capsule,” explains Craig Tracy, a French Quarter business owner. “This looked like something that hadn't been touched since the 40's. The plumbing was at least that old. Everything was just neglected.”

“Here in the French Quarter, we try and take care of things. We want this to be the best place that it can be but when owners of properties neglect things, this is what happens and it gets scary,” adds Tracy.

The city of New Orleans is investigating what caused part of this old building to collapse. Firefighters state they are amazed no one was hurt when bricks and air conditioning units came tumbling down. No one was inside the building at the time of the partial collapse.

Right now, the goal is to stabilize the building enough so people can return to the neighboring buildings. Firefighters say there's a chance the whole crumbling structure may have to be torn down.

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3 people injured in partial building collapse in Middletown

 UPDATED 6:04 AM EDT Oct 17, 2014

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Three people were hurt when a building under construction collapsed in Middletown around 4 p.m. Thursday at Shelbyville Road and Madison Avenue

The injured workers were framing a small shopping center, which will be called Madison Station.

Co-workers and bystanders had gotten them out from under any debris by the time emergency crews arrived.

"About a third of the truss roof system that was being installed had fallen. There were three workers we found that were injured. All appear to have non-life threatening injuries. All three were transported to the hospital for treatment," said Middletown Fire Assistant Chief Andy Longstreet.

The project is on the site of Middletown's former inter-urban train station.

OSHA is investigating the cause of the collapse.

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Technological Hazard – Another Fatal Structural Collapse: Uttar Pradesh, India

Technological Hazard –  Structural Collapse

Asia – India | State of Uttar Pradesh, Noida, RCJ Public School 
Location:  28°32’16.8″N 77°23’31.2″E
Fatalities: 1
Injured: 27
Missing: 0
Evacuees: 1
Damage Level: Unknown

A five-year-old child was killed and 25 others, all aged between 5 and 10 years, were injured after a wall of an under-construction building collapsed in Noida Sector 49 on Thursday. According to the police, the incident took place around 11.30am on Thursday morning at RCJ Public School, when around 40 students were attending a class adjacent to the building in question. Two teachers were also injured in the incident, which left six students critically injured. “The students were in class when the wall of an under-construction building suddenly collapsed on them. After the incident, all injured students and teachers were rushed to a hospital nearby, where one of them, Sanjay, was declared dead on admission,” a senior police officer said. The officer added that six students have been referred to Delhi’s Lok Nayak hospital owing to the severity of their condition. The police have detained Babu Pradhan, the owner of the under-construction building, and are investigating the case. After the incident, Gautam Budh Nagar DM Chander Kant visited the spot and ordered an inquiry into the matter. “We are also investigating if the school was also at fault. The Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) has also been asked to conduct an independent probe into the incident, the police officer said.

Source: RSOE EDIS

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Two Construction Workers Trapped When Ceiling Collapses In Mineola

October 17, 2014 12:16 PM

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Two construction workers were injured Friday after part of a ceiling collapsed on Long Island.

The collapse happened inside the old Social Services building, which is now being turned into a family court in Mineola,

“There was an environmental cleaning company from Queens prepping this building for asbestos removal,” said Nassau County Police Inspector Kenneth Lack. “During that preparation, some portion of the ceiling collapsed. There were 19 people in the building at the time from the contractor. Two of them were trapped inside the debris. They were removed by police department personnel for non life-threatening injuries. The other 17 people are accounted for and at this time they are being decontaminated for asbestos and will be transported to a local hospital.”

The trapped workers were taken to the hospital for observation and treatment. They are now alert and conscious, McLogan reported.

The cause of the collapse is under investigation.

Nassau County Police Det. Vincent Garcia said engineers will check the structural integrity of the three-story building at 101 County Road Drive, which has been vacant for years, 1010 WINS’ Al Jones reported.

 

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Three storey building collapses in Ebonyi

Oct 08, 2014Charles OnyekwereMetro0

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Residents of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital have called for stringent measures by relevant authorities to curb incessant cases of building collapse in the state.
They made the call in response to the collapse of a three storey building under construction at Udude Street in Ntezi-Aba area of Abakaliki.
When the New Telegraph Correspondent visited the scene, he learnt that one person was injured while occupants of another building partly damaged by the collapsed building escaped death.
The three storey building under construction collapsed on Tuesday night