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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Boulders The Size Of Cars Hit Hwy. 119

Eastbound Side Of Highway Closed

POSTED: 8:51 am MDT August 6, 2012

UPDATED: 11:29 am MDT August 6, 2012

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. -- The Colorado State Patrol says boulders the size of cars hit Highway 119 on Monday morning.The rockslide happened about three miles east of Nederland.The highway is blocked and it may not reopen until Monday evening.

No vehicles were hit by the slide, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

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Girls hostel collapses in Joida; two traumatized

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 - 10:21:31

Source: S.O. News Service, I.G. Bhatkali

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Karwar: Two girl students were hospitalised after a pre-metric girl student�s hostel collapsed in Joida on Saturday afternoon. The hostel was being run by the department of backward classes and minority communities. They fell ill after listening to the sound of the building collapse. Nobody was injured in the incident, officials said.

According to the hostel inmates, they returned from school to the hostel afternoon. Soon they heard a defeaning noise and the building came crashing down. According to the officials, Shubhangi Desai and Tara Savanth collapsed after hearing the noise, were shifted to hospital.

A total of 125 girl students staying in the hostel, but all the students were playing outside when the accident took place.
The girls, who escaped un-hurt said that if the building collapsed at night there would have been serious causalities.
The local people blamed officials for inferior quality of work on the building. Senior officials visited the spot and said that the girls would be temporarily shifted to another building.

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Seven seriously injured, two trapped in building collapse

Posted on: 01 Aug 2012, 04:01 PM

Thrissur: Seven persons were seriously injured and two others trapped under rubble when an under construction building of Kerala Agricultural University at nearby Vellanikara collapsed this afternoon, police said.
     
The injured had been hospitalised, they said, adding efforts are on to extricated those trapped under the debris.

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One worker injured in Shenton Way multi-storey car park collapse
Posted: 02 August 2012 1814 hrs

SINGAPORE: A worker was injured after a portion of a multi-story car park in Shenton Way collapsed on Thursday evening.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said the worker sustained minor back injuries and was given outpatient treatment at Singapore General Hospital.

Preliminary findings showed the collapse could have been caused by accumulated debris against the rear of the building.

The ministry has issued a stop work order for the site.

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) added that part of the car park structure slab collapsed during demolition works.

It has also revoked the permit for demolition works and ordered detailed investigations to be carried out.

According to the professional engineer in charge of construction works for the project, the adjacent 39-storey UIC building tower, which is also due for demolition, has not been affected by the collapse.

As a precautionary measure, instructions have been given to prop up a portion of the car park structure facing Shenton Way.

Two lanes of Shenton Way have been closed while the propping works are carried out.

SCDF and the police said they received a call at about 4.45pm requesting assistance at the site at No. 5 Shenton Way.

SCDF said all 19 workers who were working in the area have been accounted for.

The collapsed portion measured about 30 metres by 20 metres.

SCDF personnel, including DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team), and search dogs conducted two search operations at the affected site.

One caller to the Channel NewsAsia hotline, Mr Jack Yu, said a loud boom was heard at around 4.40pm. He was working at the DBS building opposite the construction site.

"It was a very loud bang, like boom, and then the ground shook for a while. The construction site has been there for the past month, so we are used to the hammering sound and things like that but suddenly when the loud boom - we thought something must have happened," he said. cont.

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Longtime Local Business Collapses; Investigation Will Determine Why

(Photo by Jennifer Iller)

MEXIA (July 31, 2012)—A downtown building in Mexia collapsed overnight, but the town’s fire chief says no one was injured.

Neighbors Cleaners, a longtime Mexia business, was left in rubble after a significant portion of the roof and the front of the building collapsed at around 7:30 p.m. Monday, Mexia Fire Chief Clayton Shivers said.

Shivers said the staff at the dry cleaners had taken off for summer vacation and no one was inside the building when it came down.

There was no indication Tuesday morning why the building fell.

The building sits at 209 E. Main Street, across from Mexia City Hall, Shivers said.

Two engine companies and an ambulance were at the scene for two to three hours.

Main Street had been cleared of debris by early Tuesday morning, but Shivers said it would take some time to clean up the collapsed building.

The collapse did major damage to the building and to its contents, Shivers said.

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Wall Of Denver Home Collapses

POSTED: 6:13 am MDT July 31, 2012

DENVER -- The wall of a home collapsed on Tuesday morning, leaving a gaping hole.It happened near 29th and Stout streets, just north of downtown Denver.Denver Fire officials said the wall of home fell outward onto a neighbors home and collapsed.

Video from AirTracker 7 showed several feet of the wall from the first home gone and lots of bricks on the ground in between the two homes.There were no injuries in either home, according to Phil Champagne with the Denver Fire Department.Firefighters boarded up the hole, but the family will have to stay elsewhere until officials determine the home is safe to occupy.

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Tragedy strikes Uttar Pradesh once again

Uttar Pradesh | Posted on Jul 28, 2012 at 03:01am IST

Six children killed in school roof collapse, probe ordered

Bijnor: Six students were killed and seven injured on Friday when roof of a private school collapsed in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh. A portion of the roof of Ramanand Public High School in Jalilpur village caved in this afternoon when the classes were going on and some students were trapped under the debris, police sources said.

Uttar Pradesh has government ordered an inquiry into the incident. Six students, Deepak Kumar (13), Shani (10), Sunny (12), Shohrat (13), Raghvendra (12) and Hariom (10) were killed in the incident, they said.

Police said that seven students were injured in the accident and were admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav while expressing grief over the incident had ordered an inquiry, an official spokesman said.

The chief minister has directed that proper treatment be provided to the injured students, he said.

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Two killed in building collapse

Rescue work in progress at a construction site of a three-storey building that collapsed at Kirti Nagar furniture market in West Delhi on Tuesday.Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Most of those present in the building were daily labourers,however no confirmation on the total number of people present.

Two persons, including a woman, were killed and three injured when a building collapsed in Kirti Nagar here on Tuesday afternoon.

The incident took place around 12-45 p.m. Construction activity was going on in the building located in the Furniture Market of Kirti Nagar at the time of collapse. Most of those present in the building were daily labourers. There was, however, no confirmation on the total number of people present.

While the identity of the deceased persons could not be ascertained according to the police, those injured have been identified as Sanjiv, Bhola and Bittu – all aged between 18 to 20 years. All three of them are from Patna and live in Raghubir Nagar area of Delhi.

The injured were taken to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in West Delhi where they were provided treatment.

The police said poor construction material could be the reason behind the collapse.

“We were sitting on the other side of the road when all of a sudden we saw the building collapsing and we rushed near to check what was going on,” said an eyewitness.

Honey Singh, who runs a furniture shop in the same area, said construction activity has been going on in the building since the past one month and nobody was residing in it.

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A second building in Alexandria collapses

July 24, 2012

A mother and her two daughters were killed in west Alexandria on Monday when the one story building they were living in collapsed only a week after a building collapse claimed 20 lives in a nearby neighbourhood.

Reports stated that the building located in the El-Amreya district on Seven Up Street was built on a sandy land and collapsed due to a landslide.

Ahmed Essmat, an Alexandrian Journalist, said many buildings in Alexandria are prone to collapse. However, Essmat said, residents who live in buildings on uneven ground, or hazardous dwellings have nowhere to move.

“Recently a building in Sidi Beshr was leaning and people asked the residents to evacuate it, but they refused. They have nowhere to go,” Essmat said.

“There are more than 50 similar cases in Alexandria and the Governor isn’t doing anything about it,” he added.

Hassan Allam,the head of Egypt’s Building Inspectorate, told The Egyptian Gazette two million buildings over the past few years have violated construction regulations across Egypt and 180,000 of them are in Alexandria.

The building collapse last Sunday in the “Gomrok” area of Alexandria a week crashed into three adjacent buildings as it fell, accounting for the extraordinary toll of lives. The building’s owner had been repeatedly warned about its weakness and has since been arrested for negligence in relation to the collapse.

In addition to signs of structural weaknesses in many buildings to explain the fall, several rumours surfaced including a suggestion that the woman and her children were digging for antiquities and roman monuments under their house.

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Two dead, three injured in building collapse in Delhi

Submitted by admin4on 24 July 2012 - 6:10pm

New Delhi : Two people were killed and three others injured when an under-construction building collapsed here Tuesday afternoon, police said.

The incident was reported from west Delhi's Kirti Nagar area around 12.30 p.m. All the victims, in their 20's, are reportedly labourers.

"They were taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) hospital where two were declared brought dead while three others are being treated," said a police officer.