Collapsing Buildings and Roadways

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Emergency crews rush to partial building collapse at church in Northeast KC

POSTED 10:52 AM, AUGUST 7, 2014

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Crews were responding to an emergency situation, reported as a partial building collapse, at Independence Ave. and Benton Blvd. Thursday morning at about 10:45.

Initially there were reports that first responders were preparing for injuries, but after arriving and evaluating, Kansas City, Mo., police tweeted that everyone was out and there were no injuries.

The building is used by Rios De Aqu Diva, a church. There were children attending either a daycare or a Vacation Bible School at the time the structure started crumbling.

They have been placed in buses, away from the building. Parents are asked to contact Herminio Leal at 816-309-0938 to inquire about their children. The pick-up point for parents to respond is Independence Ave. and Gladstone Blvd.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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3 of a Family Die as Three-storey Building Collapses

By Express News Service

Published: 07th August 2014 08:55 AM

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  Rescue operations on at the building collapse site at Aluva on Wednesday night | suresh Nampoothiri

KOCHI: Three persons belonging to a family died after a three-storey building collapsed on Pipeline Road, Kunnathery Junction, near Aluva on Wednesday night.

The deceased are Shajahan alias Shaji, 48, his wife Saifuneesa, 34, and their daughter Ayesha, 13.

Ayesha’s brother Sabir had a miraculous escape as he jumped out of the building when it collapsed. Sabir has been admitted to the nearby hospital with minor injuries.

Ayesha was rescued from the debris but she succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital. The bodies of Shaji and Saifuneesa were later recovered by rescuers from the debris.

The incident occurred around 8.45 pm when the ground floor of the house sank after the basement caved into the ground. The rescue operations were led by the Fire and Rescue Services department with the help of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The 10-year-old building had been renovated only three months ago.

According to the Fire and Rescue Services officials, the rescue operation was hampered by the heavy downpour lashing the area. However, the rescue operations resumed after a short while. The building structure tilted towards the road. Rescuers reached the spot within 15 minutes and started the operations.

The building owner Shaji was staying on the top floor while the first and ground floor have been rented out. A workshop and a flour mill were operating there. The migrant labourers who were staying inside the workshop had a narrow escape as the building collapsed.

Sources said that the building collapsed as the foundation was weak.

Meanwhile, District Collector M G Rajamanickam told  mediapersons that the NDRF and the Fire and Rescue Services personnel were involved in the rescue operations.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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WALL COLLAPSE IN DELHI KILLS FOUR PEOPLE

last updated on August 01, 2014 at 11:03 pm

New Delhi: Four persons were killed on Friday when a wall of an under construction building collapsed in Hari Nagar area in West Delhi, the fire department said.According to a fire service official, a call was received at 7:20 pm regarding the collapse of wall of the under construction building."A team of fire officials were rushed to the spot and four bodies of labourers, who were working there, was recovered from the debris of the wall of the under construction building," said the official.The incident took place in L-block area of Hari Nagar when the labourers were working at the site, he said.Delhi Police has also confirmed that four persons, aged between 25 and 35, have died in the incident."The identities of the deceased have not been established yet and further investigation regarding the owner of the said building is going on," said a senior police official adding that the bodies have been sent to hospital for postmortem.PTI

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Vadodara: Three family members killed in building collapse

Jul 26, 2014 11:52 IST

Vadodara: Three members of a family, including a woman, were killed and another injured when a dilapidated building collapsed in Vadodara this morning following heavy rains. The family was residing in the three-storeyed building in Dandiya Bara locality which caved in after heavy rains last night.

Vinod Rao, District Collector, said, "It was an old building in dilapidated condition. The injured (an elderly woman) has been shifted to the SSG Hospital for treatment while the debris has been removed."

"Despite a notice being issued for repairing the building, no steps were taken to either repair it or shift the residents to another site," he said.

Representational image of an earlier building collapse in Mumbai. PTI

H J Tapariya, Chief Fire Officer, Vadodara Municipal Corporation, said the deceased were identified as V Vaidya (50), his wife Shweta (46) and their son Kunal (21). V Vaidya's mother, aged 82, was injured.

Meanwhile, as many as 710 people staying in low-lying areas here were shifted to safer places after heavy rain lashed the city, said K S Menat, Deputy Municipal Commissioner.

Vadodara recorded about 131 mm rainfall in just four hours last night, flooding low-lying areas, he said.

Meanwhile, efforts were continuing to trace the two persons, Suresh Rathodiya and Bharat Rathodiya, who were swept away in swollen Dhadhar River at Sokhda Raghu village in the district on Thursday, Menat said.

[Mark]

Nigeria Also Questions the Quality of its Cement While Trying to Explain the Huge Number of Building Collapses They Are Experiencing

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The ongoing war on cement grade followed the spate of building collapse. It is no longer news that several buildings have collapsed across the country killings hundreds of people and destroying property worth billions. The bulk of these ugly incidents have occurred in Lagos. Port Harcourt, Abuja, Owerri and recently Onitsha have also had their own incidents. 

    Today, there are few states in the federation that have not witnessed disastrous building collapses. No one knows where and when the next building would collapse and who would be the unfortunate victims. But it is emerging that most of the collapsed buildings are the newer structures; the older buildings are stable and unaffected.

    Initially, it was thought that the buildings collapsed due to heavy rain and flooding (most of the buildings caved in during the rainy season). But the trend shows that this is not true. Buildings have collapsed during the dry season. Besides, the bulk of the collapsed buildings were those under construction, which point to the materials being used or other engineering issues. What started as one off incident has assumed frightening dimension and threatening the entire building industry. It is an indication that something is wrong somewhere.

    Faced with such enigmatic and embarrassing situation, there was need to investigate the root of the problem. Government cannot fold its arms while innocent people are sent to their early graves. Although, cement is not the only material used in building construction, stakeholders in the building industry pointed accusing fingers at the cement quality manufactured in Nigeria.  The coalition of civil society groups and professional bodies in the building industry raised the alarm and alleged that cement is the culprit behind the spate of building collapse. 

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Portion of New Underwood Road in Meade County collapses

Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:34 am

News Staff & KOTA-TV 

RAPID CITY, S.D. - A big section of a rural Meade County road has collapsed. Over the weekend, a stretch of New Underwood Road fell away. It is 15 miles north of Interstate 90, the major north-south connector between I-90 and Highway 34.

New Underwood Road is the only asphalt connection between the northern part of South Dakota and Interstate 90 between Phillip and Sturgis. It is a well-traveled route to the oil fields and sees a lot of reservation traffic. The road was built in 1990. Engineers suspect the shale under the road expanded with all the spring moisture and is now contracting as it dries out.

Ken McGirr, Meade County Highway Superintendent says, "What I see is an unbudgeted expense. At this point, we have no idea what this will cost us, what the cure is. Our engineers are going to work on it. We may need to just flat move the road over to the west away from this."

McGirr says 700 to 800 cars pass on this road every day. In the next couple of days, he will close New Underwood road to all but local traffic. It will be strictly enforced. And he expects it to stay closed through the winter.

Fixing the sink hole is now Meade County's main priority. McGirr guesses it will cost well over $1 million to fix.

[Mark]

Nigeria Struggles to Explain Building Collapses: blame given to 'Quacks' as not a single person has been found at fault in 130 investigations

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A group, Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), has blamed quacks or use of wrong professionals for virtually all the buildings that have collapsed in the country.

The blame was made by a civil engineer, Friday Chukwu, at a press conference organised by the BCPG at the secretariat of Yaba Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State.

While noting that building collapse has become a recurring decimal in Nigeria, Chukwu pointed out that in Lagos alone, more than 140 building collapse incidences have been reported over the past seven years, saying that is an average of 20 reported incidences per year.

According to him, “The causes of building collapse range from design lapses to poor construction practices through inadequate quality of construction materials to even wrong use of the facility, among other factors.

“As we all know, the best design in the world is worthless if it is not faithfully implemented at the site. We find that everyone who holds a trowel and a spirit level in his hands, for instance, is automatically called ‘engineer’ at site.

“The issue of premature loading must also be mentioned. Sometimes on our sites, contractors or developers or owners are in such a hurry that newly cast concrete is often not allowed to cure sufficiently and attain reasonable strength before being loaded.

“The BCPG came on board, having identified the above issues with individual and collective determination to fight the menace of building collapse.

‘Thee BCPG is a coalition of professionals from the seven built environment professions with the common objective to identify, inform, act against building collapse in Nigeria as well as push for use of professionals and the stamping out of quacks in the built environment sector.

“The panel of inquiry instituted by the Lagos State Government on building collapse last disclosed in their report that in over 130 building collapse cases investigated, no professional was indicted in any of the collapse incidences.

“This means that quacks or use of wrong professionals has been responsible for these collapses and they have been denting our image,” Chukwu said.

[Tracie Crespo]

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Prison roof in Texas collapses, 19 inmates injured

AP Photo: Rhonda Oaks, The Daily News

Lufkin Police and Texas DPS officers work to secure the backside of the Diboll Correctional Facility on July 19, 2014.

DIBOLL, Texas (AP) — Authorities say the roof of a privately run East Texas prison has collapsed, temporarily trapping dozens of inmates and sending 19 injured inmates to hospitals.

One of those inmates was later airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston after the Saturday collapse at Diboll Correctional Center, about 100 miles northeast of Houston. Neither his identity nor his condition has been released.

In a statement, a prison spokesman said the other inmates suffered cuts and bruises when wallboard fell from the ceiling of a housing area at the prison about 11:30 a.m.

Spokesman Issa Arnita said 86 inmates were in the area when the ceiling material fell. He said officials are trying to determine the cause.

The 518-bed minimum-security facility is operated by Centerville, Utah-based Management & Training Corp.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Three people were reportedly killed and 11 injured on Friday when the roof of a building in China collapsed, when people were taking shelter from heavy rain.

• POSTED: 18 Jul 2014 16:22
• UPDATED: 18 Jul 2014 16:55

This photo from Nfdaily's Weibo page shows a collapsed roof in Shenzhen, China. The ceiling of the bank collapsed from heavy rain ahead of Super Typhoon Rammasun, killing three people and injuring 11.

Police cordon off the scene of a roof collapse in Shenzhen, China. According to media reports, the incident happened when 20 to 30 people were taking shelter from heavy rain at the entrance of a bank. (Photo: Nfdaily, Weibo)

Photo from Nfdaily shows the scene of a roof collapse in heavy rain in Shenzhen, China. This incident came as China braced for Super Typhoon Rammasun.

SHENZHEN: Three people were reportedly killed and 11 injured on Friday when the roof of a building in China collapsed in heavy rain.

According to Chinese media outlets Nfdaily and China News, the roof collapsed on a bank in Shenzhen at about 11.30am on Friday. At the time of the incident, there were between 20 and 30 people taking shelter from heavy rain at the entrance of the bank.

Caijing.com.cn reported that eight of those reported hurt sustained minor injuries.

CCTV also reported that rescuers were still searching for victims.

China on Friday braced for Super Typhoon Rammasun heading for its southern coast after the storm left a trail of destruction and at least 54 dead in the Philippines.

Xinhua said Rammasun was expected to be the strongest typhoon to hit Hainan in 40 years.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Two Dead, Six Injured in Building Collapse in Suburban Mumbai

Mumbai: Two person was killed after a portion of a slab of a four-storeyed building collapsed at Kakaji Nagar’s Prasad shopping centre in suburban Goregaon West on Tuesday, a Municipal Corporation…