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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INCIDENT: SCHOOL BUILDING COLLAPSE

Workman trapped as building collapsed during demolition

It has been reported by the Exeter Express and Echo that a workman is recovering in hospital after being trapped under a collapsed building at a primary school.

Emergency services were called to Lympstone Primary School in East Devon and the 50-year-old male was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth with neck and leg injuries which are not thought to be life threatening.

The workman was demolishing a long standing temporary building at the school and the incident was witnessed by several schoolchildren.

Headteacher Tony Priest said:

“The school is going through a period of expansion and as a result some of the older rooms are being demolished. This particular building was a temporary structure that had been in use for many years. During the lunch time two of the walls and the roof of the building came down. There were three workmen on the site, two managed to get clear but the other was caught under the roof. The emergency services arrived promptly and used specialist jacks to raise the rubble. 

It happened at lunchtime so there were children out and about and some saw and heard what happened. We finished the lunch break early and the children were back in class quickly. It is awful to think what might have happened had there been children inside.”

Devon and Cornwall police said:

“There was one man trapped inside by his legs, six to eight feet in rubble. He was extracted by the fire service.  Thankfully the casualty didn’t suffer any major injuries. He’s got a relatively minor ankle injury. He was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital by land ambulance as a precaution. HSE was advised and will be beginning an investigation into the circumstances.”

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22936533

At least 19 dead after monsoon flooding in northern India

Apartment block and temple collapse in India floods BBC News The three-storey building in Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand state was hit on Sunday night amid heavy flooding. Footage from the scene shows apartment blocks surrounded by flood waters, before one collapses. Meanwhile, amateur footage from the same area ...

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17 June 2013 Last updated at 14:02 ETHelp

Floods and landslides have killed at least 19 people and destroyed buildings after heavy rain in North India.

Fifteen people died in Uttarakhand state. Another four lost their lives in Himachal Pradesh, officials say.

Footage showed a three-storey apartment building being washed away in the town of Uttarkashi. Reports said at least three people died - more are missing.

Another 40 people are unaccounted for in Uttarakhand. Casualty figures are expected to rise.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Three women killed in wall collapse

Monday, Jun 17, 2013, 2:02 IST

Two sisters among victims; they were passing by an under-construction building near Dandekar Bridge

Rescue work in progress at Dandekar bridge - Aniruddha Rajandekar/DNA

 

Three women, including two sisters, died after the compound wall of an under-construction building collapsed on Sunday night. The incident took place outside Suvarnanand Park building at Mangirbaba Chowk near Dandekar Bridge.

The deceased were identified as Sharada Majhire (45, resident of S No 129, Dattawadi), Meera Shirish Athale (56, resident of Narayan Peth) and Madhavi Pangarkar (58, resident of Bibvewadi).

Pangarkar and Athale were sisters and were returning home after meeting their 86-year-old mother in Dattawadi. Majhire was going for night duty to Bhide Hospital off Shastri Road, where she works as a helper.

Shirish Athale, husband of Meera, called up on his wife’s cellphone number as she was late reaching home. He was shocked when the call was received by a constable at Dattawadi police station, who informed him about the accident. Athale said he had advised his wife and sister-in-law against visiting their mother as it was raining heavily. 

Ram Majhire (26), son of Sharada, said his mother was going for the night shift at Bhide Hospital. She was walking near the wall when it suddenly collapsed. He said the same wall had collapsed a few days ago and was constructed again.

After the incident, the fire brigade rushed to the spot. Senior police officials including joint commissioner of police Sanjeevkumar Singhal, deputy commissioner of police (zone II) Ramnath Pokale, police inspector (crime) Rajendra Savant and senior police inspector Satish Govekar also rushed to the spot.

Santosh Patole, a local resident said that while he was standing along with a few friends chatting outside Suvarnanand Park at 8 pm, he suddenly heard a loud crashing noise. “We rushed in the direction of the noise and saw that the big compound wall had collapsed.”

Patole and his friends called up the fire brigade. The local residents rushed to the spot and tried to remove the debris. The fire brigade crew arrived at the spot and brought out the three women from the debris. They were rushed to the hospital, but pronounced dead on arrival. Additional CP (south region) Chandrashekhar Daithankar said the incident took place at 8 pm. When these three women were walking on the footpath outside the Suvarnanand Park building, the 25-feet high compound wall suddenly collapsed. He said, “We have recovered bodies of three women.”

When asked about the action against AV Mulay and Associates, builders and engineers, Daithankar said, “We will inquire into this incident in detail and take action accordingly.”

[Tracie Crespo]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52200689/ns/local_news-miami_fl/

33 Injured in Deck Collapse at Miami Restaurant      

By EDWARD B. COLBY, and JULIA BAGGand BRIAN HAMACHER    

NBCMIAMI.com        

    updated      6/14/2013 10:46:21 PM ET     2013-06-15T02:46:21

  Thirty-three people were injured, two of them seriously, after  the deck of a popular waterfront restaurant overlooking Biscayne  Bay collapsed in North Bay Village Thursday night, authorities  said.

  About 100 people were on the deck at Shuckers Bar & Grill at  at the time, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Dave Downey said. Many  of them were watching the Miami Heat in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

  Restaurant patrons were sent tumbling into shallow water in  Biscayne Bay. One man said the water covered his head. He said  his first instinct was to save himself and then others.

VIDEO:  Watch video of the     aftermath of the collapse.

  On Friday, officials said they believed everyone had been  accounted for. They said of the 33 people injured, 24 were  transported to the hospital and two of them were in serious  condition.

  Divers will not be going into the water because it is not a safe  structure, a source told NBC 6. The deck was not a floating  structure, and it was supported by the seawall, the source said.

  Authorities received a 911 call at about 9:45 p.m. about the  collapse at Shuckers, a popular local hangout at 1819 79th St.  Causeway. Part of the establishment is on land.

“It’s very unfortunate what has happened," North Bay Village  Mayor Connie Leon-Kreps said of the collapse.

2 Dead, 1 Critical in Platform Collapse at Port  Everglades

  Anthony Herrera said he and his mother walked into Shuckers just  beforehand.

“We walk in, we take a few steps in, my mom’s looking around for  a hostess, and you just hear crunch, crunch – curiosity – and  then bam, pillar coming down, pillar pillar, and people  screaming, people yelling, pieces of wood hitting the water,"      Herrera recounted. "Before I could really see anything, like  I said, my mom grabbed me, and we ran back home, because we live  right there down the street.”

Downey said 24 victims were transported from the scene, with two  of them seriously injured. About 50 units from various agencies  were tending to the victims, he said.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Floor, Ceiling Collapse in Wallingford Building

Recent rain is likely to blame for the damage

The floor and ceiling at a building on South Orchard Street in Wallingford both collapsed early Friday morning.

That building housed three businesses. The owner, Andrew Carbutti, believes recent rain compromised the structure.

 

"It's a disaster," Carbutti said. "Something we would have never suspected would have happened."

 

Luckily no one was working inside when the collapse occurred. Desks, chairs, office supplies and computers were all piled up on the floor.

 

Carbutti said the problem likely started in the roof.

 

"We had an inkling that we had some wetness on our drop ceilings from last Friday's storms but it was obviously more than that," he said.

 

The building was home to an appraisal company and a senior services center. They will have to be relocated. To complicate matters further there was a gas leak in the building. Crews had to dig up the road to shut it off.

[Kris H]

5-story building collapse in Mumbai, India.

http://m.ndtv.com/article/cities/after-heavy-rain-multi-storey-buil...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/rwanda-building-collapse-kills-3-...

Updated: 8:02 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Posted: 8:02 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30

KAMPALA, Uganda —

Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as the rescue effort ended.

Christophe Semuhungu, the police spokesman for Rwanda's Eastern Province, said rescue workers from the police and the military had found no more bodies after combing through the rubble of the building in the eastern Rwanda district of Nyagatare.

He said at least 30 workers were injured in the Tuesday afternoon incident. Most were being treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital, he said, but some were in critical condition. He said the construction site employed about 45 workers but some were not on duty when the building fell.

In a statement police had earlier described the building collapse as "an unfolding tragedy." It remained unclear what caused the collapse.

In recent years building collapses have become frequent in East and Central African countries as some property developers bypass regulations to cut costs. In March, a building collapsed in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, killing at least 30 people.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Wall collapse kills one, injures four workers

VietNamNet Bridge - A 10m high wall, about 70m long collapsed on a group of workers below. Consequently, one person died on the spot, four others were injured.

Last update 12:00 | 08/05/2013

The accident occurred in the afternoon of May 6 at a building site in the Tay Bac Cu Chi Industrial Park in Cu Chi District, HCM City.

According to preliminary information, at about 4.40pm, more than 60 workers were working at this place when unexpectedly a wall of 10m high, 70m long collapsed on five people. Excavator driver Nguyen Vu Linh, 25 years old, a native of Tien Giang province was crushed to death on the spot.

Four workers were injured seriously, including a 26-year-old man from Tien Giang, a 44-year-old man from An Giang, a 29-year-old woman from Can Tho and a 36-year-old man from Soc Trang.

By afternoon of May 7, Cu Chi district police still worked with the relevant agencies for investigation and handling of this serious accident.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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Four Story Building Collapses In Lagos, Kills Worker

Posted date: May 07, 2013 

A four storey building under construction located at Bashiru Street, off Isheri road in Lagos, South West Nigeria caved in on Tuesday afternoon killing one worker.

There are fears that some workers are trapped under the rubbles but the rescue team is making efforts to rescue them.

The Commissioner for Physical Planning, Toyin Ayinde who is leading rescue efforts said heavy duty earth moving equipment have been deployed to help rescue victims of the collapse building.

The building is located about 200 meters away from the office of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Ojodu and officials of the organization have also moved in to help beef up rescue exercise.

According to Mr Ayinde, it’s too quick to conclude what may have caused the building collapse, but the structure was approved by the federal ministry of housing.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/464921/20130506/balcony-collapse-...

Balcony Collapses On Italian Religious Procession Killing Three

May 6, 2013 5:40 PM GMT

Three people were killed and 14 injured on Sunday, after a balcony collapsed onto a religious procession in Portici near Naples in southern Italy.

Two women aged 67 and 65 as well as a 65-year-old man died instantly when they were crushed by heavy masonry from the first floor balcony of a 300-year-old building.

Around 40,000 people gathered in the town to watch the annual procession in honour of its patron saint, St Ciro.

The balcony, which overlooked the main street in the seaside town was crammed with people and collapsed because of the sheer weight of numbers.

Moments before it crumbled, witnesses said they heard a loud rumble.

TV footage showed crumbling plaster work on the building and a sheet flapping in the wind, attached to the balcony rail which had remained on the main structure of the building.

One witness said: "There were scenes of sheer panic - people were scrambling all over the place.

"At first a rumour went round that there had been a shooting and people had been killed and injured which sent everyone scrambling for cover.

"It took the police to arrive and announce there had been no shooting to calm things down.''

Another told Italian TV: "I heard a loud bang, then a rumble, looked around and saw the balcony had collapsed, there was debris everywhere.

"There were also people balancing on the edge where the balcony had been and one of these fell to the ground. It was a woman and there was a child as well.''

Police later named the three people killed as Maria Vela, 67, Concetta Evangelista, 65, and Aniello Scognamiglio, 65, who were all local while two of the nine injured were said to be in a serious condition.

Police chief Pasquale Manzo told Sky News: "'This is a tragic event - it has shattered what should have been a happy and joyous event.

"A balcony on one of the many splendid buildings we have here in Portici simply collapsed."