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

[Howard]

Historic Building Unexpectedly Collapses In South Carolina (June 26) -

http://www.wltx.com/news/article/192041/2/Historic-Orangeburg-Build...

http://thetandd.com/news/roof-collapses-walls-come-tumbling-down/ar...

Plans to renovate an Orangeburg building nearing its 100th birthday came to an end Tuesday morning when its roof collapsed, sending bricks onto a truck parked below.

Building owner Mike Johnson said it was a shock to him.

As president of Cox Industries, Johnson said he was considering placing Cox’s headquarters in the building, as well as creating philanthropic and retail space inside.

“I was very excited for all parties that would have been positively impacted by this project,” Johnson said. “I had such high hopes for what we were about to embark on both for those involved in the project and for Orangeburg.”

[Howard]

State of Emergency Declared As Mall Roof Collapses in Northern Ontario (June 23) -

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2012/06/23/elliot-lake-...

The roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., collapsed Saturday afternoon, prompting Mayor Rick Hamilton to declare a state of emergency.

East Algoma OPP said they received the call at 2:19 p.m. ET on Saturday. The incident occurred at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, which is about 150 kilometres west of Sudbury.

Police said they don't have any information yet about any injuries or missing people. They asked the public to keep away from the area.

The part of the roof that caved in reportedly served as a parking area for customers and mall staff.

Joe Drazil, a Zellers employee at the mall, said cars appeared to have fallen through a gaping hole near the escalators.

"You can see the roof with the cars hanging inside," he said.

Emergency officials turned off the mall's power due to a gas leak caused by the collapse.

Mayor Rick Hamilton has declared a state of emergency.

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13 hurt in building collapse in Mysore, India

MYSORE: Thirteen persons were injured when an under-construction building collapsed inside a factory on KRS Road on Saturday. Police said the incident occurred around 12.15pm. The injured workers, who hail from Raichur, were taken to a private hospital. 

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13 buried in construction site collapse in E China

HANGZHOU - Thirteen people were buried after a building under construction collapsed in EastChina's Zhejiang province on Saturday morning, according to an announcement by localauthorities.

The accident happened at 10:24 am at a construction site in the Jiaxing Port and DevelopmentZone in the city of Jiaxing, said the local fire department.

Twelve of the 13 people have been saved from the debris and rushed to a local hospital.

As of 1 pm, search and rescue work for the last victim was continuing

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Building Collapse Kills Two in Central China

Two people were killed and three others injured after a heavy rainstorm caused the collapse of a residential home in central China's Hunan province. Five family members were asleep when their three story home caved in. The first victim was rescued and sent to the hospital half an hour after the collapse, while the next one, a middle aged woman, was pulled to safety nearly three hours later. The third victim a 14 year old girl was found trapped between two concrete slabs, but rescued four hours after the collapse. The remaining two were discovered shortly afterwards, but died after arriving at the hospital from severe injuries. The three survivors are recovering in a stable condition.

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Building collapse kills three in Kenya

NAIROBI, June 10 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and nine others went missing after a four-story building collapsed in Kenya's capital city on Saturday night.

Rescue continued into Sunday as nine people were reported missing, said the Red Cross Society.

"Another body was retrieved early in the morning, bringing the total confirmed death toll to three and 10 others have been taken to hospital," spokesperson of the Red Cross Society Nelly Muluka told Xinhua on Sunday.

 

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Building Collapse in France Seriously Harms 2 Bulgarians

June 16, 2012

Two Bulgarian men have been suddenly crushed by a concrete block, falling from a Paris building. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Two Bulgarian tourists have sustained life-threatening injuries in a partial buildingcollapse in the French capital Paris.

The incident was reported by the French "Le Parisien."

According to the publications, a concrete block became detached Friday evening from an apartment building in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris, injuring gravely two Bulgarian men, a father, 77, and son, 26.

The concrete block, weighting about one metric ton, fell on them at 11:15 pm on the sidewalk of "Général-Leclerc" avenue, just meters away from the Marcel-Sembat metro station.

The two are in critical condition. The father was listed at the Georges-Pompidou hospital, while the son, who suffered multiple fractions, is at the Pitié-Salpétrière one.

 

[Howard]

3 -Storey Building Collapses in Jalandhar, India - April 15

(Jalandhar near the Indo-Australian Plate boundary)

Death Toll 6, Many Still Trapped

Many people are still said to be trapped under the debris of a factory building that collapsed in Jalandhar on Sunday. The death toll meanwhile has gone up to six.

The three-storey building, housing a blanket factory, collapsed in the Focal Point area of the city around midnight on Sunday. 60 people have been rescued from the accident site so far. Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and also from the Army are assisting local administration in rescue operations. Intermittent rain is, however, hampering their efforts.

The exact cause of the mishap is yet to be ascertained. The owner of the factory has been arrested. A case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder has been against her.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident. The state government has also announced a compensation of Rs two lakh each for the kin of the deceased, Rs 65,000 each for those seriously injured and Rs 45,000 each for those who have sustained minor injuries.

[Howard]

Landslide Kills 6 in SW China's Chongqing (April 14)
The debris in a mountain collapse accident in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Six people were killed and another two wounded in the accident. A section of a mountain near the Egongyan Bridge collapsed at 1 a.m. Saturday, crushing nearby work sheds and killing six people inside, according to local authorities. The victims were employees of a construction company and a lighting company.

Six people were killed and another two wounded in a mountain collapse Saturday morning in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local authorities said.

A section of a mountain near the Egongyan Bridge collapsed at 1 a.m. Saturday, crushing nearby work sheds and killing six people inside, said an official with the city government.

The victims were employees of a construction company and a lighting company.

The injured only suffered minor wounds, said the official.

Authorities are probing the cause of the tragedy.

[Howard]

Bank Collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 14)

The Arden Hills TCF Bank drive-thru gave way Saturday afternoon around 3 p.m.

Randy Gustafson, Ramsey County’s public information officer, said no one was hurt during the collapse. Three bank employees and one customer were in the building at the time of the incident, but all were able to get out of the building safely.

Ramsey County Sheriff Deputies established a safety perimeter around the accident site, and will maintain it until the area is deemed safe and secure.

The building is a free-standing structure at 1160 West County Road E in Arden Hills.

At this time, authorities do not know what caused the canopy to collapse. There will be an investigation into incident.