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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http://www.punchng.com/news/two-killed-in-anambra-building-collapse/

Two killed in Anambra building collapse

March 2, 2012 by Emmanuel Obe, Awka 2 Comments

Two bodies were pulled out of the debris of a building which collapsed in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Thursday.

Five other people were brought out alive with varying degrees of injuries from the rubble of the two-storey building which was under construction at the time of its collapse.

The victims were mainly workers, who were working on the decking of the second floor when the building collapsed, trapping no fewer than 12 of them.

The timely arrival of men and equipment of the Consolidated Construction Company Limited, who were later joined by officials of the Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Boys Brigade and the men of the state Fire Service aided the rescue operation.

A survivor, Mr. Austin Amoah, who had serious leg injuries, said 15 workers were on site before the collapse. Another survivor, Mr. Sunday Oko, also recalled his miraculous survival.

Another survivor identified as Solomon from Edo State was brought out alive with minor injuries.

The director of the state emergency management agency, Dr. Justin Ijezie, confirmed the incident.

He said, “I was just coming from my office in CCC to enter my car and I heard a huge sound; it was a bang. We were the first set of people that came for rescue and there was hardly nothing we could do so we had to seek help from our management.

“The few people that we were able to rescue so far were through the assistance of the management of our company, CCC, and the FRSC.”

The Police Public Relations officer in the state, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka, said he wept at the scene of the incident. “This is because I discovered that the materials being used are substandard. Everything about the building is substandard.

The PPRO said, “It is high time government began to look into the building designs and capacity of projects. The materials are substandard and must have led to the collapse of the building.” continued:

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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=495577&type=Metro

Construction site collapse tilts building, leaks gas

By Ni Yinbin  |   2012-3-1

A construction site in suburban Songjiang District collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, causing underground gas pipes to leak and a nearby office building to tilt, officials confirmed yesterday.

The collapse also caused serious cracks on Laiyin Road.

The gas leak was repaired and the tilting building was stabilized, said a district spokesman surnamed Mei.

The collapse was blamed on digging work inside the construction area, the government said. The accident happened about 4:30pm at the construction site near 1881 Laiyin Road, Qixinke Industry Park.

"There was a cracking sound since morning, and I didn't realize what was going on until a series of cracking steel bars," said a witness surnamed Wang, who works on the third floor of a building near the scene.

Wang then looked out the window and saw the collapse. Wang's building was evacuated for safety concerns. Serious cracks were soon found on the walls of Wang's building, which later tilted to the north. A separate security room for the building sank by more than 1 meter.

A part of Laiyin Road about 50 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters deep collapsed, which caused the leak of the natural gas pipe below, officials said.

A strong smell of gas permeated the area. Traffic police cordoned the area and the emergency crew of the city's gas company was called in. The emergency was lifted about 5pm, Mei said.

"The staff closed the leaking gas pipe immediately," Mei said. "As most of the pipes were spare ones, the accident didn't affect the gas supply in the area."

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http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/190387--p...

A construction collapse at 700 University Ave. closed the street at College for about an hour before reopening again. It's the building that houses Ontario Power Generation. CITYNEWS.

2/29/2012

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/190387--p...

Part of a building that houses the Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on University Avenue at College collapsed Wednesday morning.  While the damage looked dramatic, an OPG spokesman says the incident doesn’t pose any danger to the building or the people inside.

Witness Pia Famiglietti was getting off the subway, headed to Mount Sinai Hospital, when it happened around 10:30 a.m.

 “I just got off the subway … and when I was walking by it just started to crunch and come down a little bit. I called 911 — it was scary,” she said. “I thought the building was collapsing. I wasn’t sure what was going on.”

Some large pieces of drywall on an overhang at 700 University Ave. fell, prompting police to cordon off the area and temporarily close the southbound lanes of the busy street. The area has since reopened to traffic.

"A portion of the building, which is under construction, has collapsed. It’s described as a roof," Toronto Police Const. Wendy Drummond said.

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Garden wall collapse shocks homeowner

http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/garden_wall_collaps...

The Leslie wall in the UK collapsed

Published on Wednesday 29 February 2012 10:44

A retired teacher is counting the cost of his garden wall mysteriously collapsing, reports KEVIN QUINN.

Mr Hood woke to find the garden wall of his home on Leslie High Street lying in the adjacent Back Braes, with no obvious reason for its collapse.

Mr Hood was still surprised at the demise of his back wall.

He said: “It happened on Thursday night. I don’t know how it happened.

“I had looked at the wall a few months ago and it didn’t look as if there was anything wrong with it.

“I’m getting a guy to come and look at it today. It’s the homeowner’s responsibility, unfortunately for me.

“It could be quite costly. It wont be pennies, that’s for sure, more likely thousands.”

Mr Hood tried to think of an explanation for this incident, pointing out similar problems with other properties close by.

He said: “Their tends to be a lot of water plains down the Back Braes. It was re-aligned in the nineties.

“If you walk along the Back Braes you can see quite a few walls patched up. A lot of patching up at the Douglas Road end.

“It’s probably just the age of it.

“As far as I know the council wont do anything about it. I don’t know who to approach about the water in the Back Braes.”

New Leslie Community Council chair John Wincott would like to have a meeting with Fife Council to get to the bottom of this problem.

He said: “I’m concerned that there seems to be more of this type of damage occurring throughout the village.

“I want to arrange a meeting with Fife Council about this.

“People have come to me complaining about damage done to buildings in Leslie by the quarry blasting, but I would be worried if somewhere so far away was damaged by the quarry, but it’s difficult to say.

“It doesn’t look like this has been caused by just subsidence. And I would be really surprised if it is a result of blasting.

“But I would definitely like to speak to the council about this.”

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At Least 4 People Killed in Building Collapse in Northern Syria

http://www.ubalert.com/a/84151

DAMASCUS -- State-run SANA news agency reported that at least four people were killed while seven others were reportedly missing on Monday following the collapse of a four-story building in Aleppo city. SANA said the bodies of the victims have been pulled out from the rubble of the toppled building located in Aleppo's Beideen neighborhood. Five people were rescued but seven others remain buried under the heaps of debris. Aleppo Governor Moufaq Khallouf attributed the collapse to the llegal construction of an additional story onto the three-story apartment building. Khallouf urged residents to evacuate immediately so restoration efforts can start in order to avoid repetition of such disaster.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-02/27/c_131434459.htm

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Catholic Church Collapses, Kills Two

http://www.radiovop.com/index.php/national-news/8345-catholic-churc...

Kadoma, February 28, 2012 - Two women died last week here after the roof of a Roman Catholic Church building under construction collapsed due to heavy winds and rains that pounded the town.

The women identified as Faith Mlonyeni and Esnath Motsi, were attending a church gathering. They died from head injuries while 10 others are still in hospital, four of them critical.

It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse of the building and residents are calling for an investigation.

Domingo Mugwagwa a local resident said: "Church and council officials must be quizzed with other church members describing the collapse of the building as a 'scandal'.
 

Rosemary Kamutiga said the building had again collapsed in 2010 and queried why the plan had not been revisited.

Church officials and the town council officials who approve building constructions were not immediately available for comment.

2nd incident

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/02/2...

Labrador school closed by partial ceiling collapse

Deputy mayor of Charlottetown says new building needed to replacing aging facility in town

Posted: Feb 28, 2012 6:04 AM NT

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http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/02/27/business-prec...

Engineers assess road collapse

Australia, David Low Way road collapse, 27th February 2012

10.25AM  UPDATE: MAIN Roads engineers and council maintenance crews this morning made initial assessment of what will be required to re-open the busy David Low Way after a section of the road collapsed at about 6pm Sunday.

Swift flowing water pouring out of the national park just north of the Coolum Soccer Club grounds have eroded away stormwater pipes under the coastal road causing significant collapse of the southbound lane.

However erosion of supporting soil around the pipe extends further than that.

Roadtek engineers on the scene at 7.30am today said repair would be difficult until the swift flow of water ceased.

A decision will be taken later today on the schedule for repair work and whether there is any value in constructing a temporary diversion.

That short term fix may require significant engineering which could negate its value.

Council maintenance superintendent Paul Tarrant said water flowing under the road followed a water course that carried it back south and into Stumers Creek.

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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120224/NEW...

Building wall collapses in Port Jervis

Published: 2:00 AM - 02/24/12

DAWN J. BENKO/For the Times Herald-Record

A wall collapse on a Front Street building in Port Jervis left an alleyway filled with bricks and metal Thursday. According to Senior Code Enforcement Officer Wayne Kidney, a leaky gutter caused the back wall to fall off 46-48 Front St. Kidney said after repeated freezing and thawing overnight, the weight of the metal fire escape attached to the back wall most likely collapsed it. Business owners discovered the collapse Thursday morning. Kidney said the H&R Block at 50-52 Front St. temporarily will be vacated pending a decision on the damaged building. Kidney said it was in foreclosure and had been vacant for more than a year. The building likely will be razed.

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http://www.gazette.com/news/forcing-134031-road-detour.html

Road collapses, forcing closure of U.S. Highway 24

February 23, 2012 12:25 PM

A temporary detour road collapsed Thursday morning, forcing the closure of U.S. Highway 24 between Falcon and Peyton. The road is expected to be closed at least until Friday.

The road's collapse was not related to Thursday morning's snowfall, according to El Paso County Engineer Andre Brackin, who consulted with Colorado Department of Transportation officials.

Eastbound travelers on Highway 24 are being directed to detour by going east on Judge Orr Road and then north on Peyton Highway. According to CDOT's website, Highway 24 is closed between milemarkers 322-327.

Highway 24 was closed at 7:50 a.m., according to CDOT's website.

"We had this detour plan already in place just in case it was needed for whatever reason," Brackin said.

The short section of two-lane detour road that collapsed was being used while the bridge halfway between Falcon and Peyton -- commonly known as the "Green Bridge" -- is being rebuilt over a tributary of Black Squirrel Creek.

Lawrence Construction is building the new bridge, Brackin said.

"The detour ride around where the bridge is being constructed is paved and it's less than a mile long," Brackin said. "My guess is the collapse had nothing to do with the snowstorm. When the snow is gone -- whether it has to be removed or melts -- is when the road will be repaired. The state is dealing with the problem. It's probably a 24-hour job to fix the detour road."

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http://dallas-hiram.patch.com/articles/swafford-wind-contributing-f...

Swafford: Wind ‘Contributing Factor’ in Hangar Collapse

The collapse injured two workers and will push back the completion date of the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport’s under-construction hangar.

Wind may have played a factor in the collapse Wednesday of an under-construction hangar that led to the injuries of two construction workers.

Blake Swafford, director of the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport, said crews with Superior Foundations and Steel Erection had begun erecting the hangar’s steel Monday. The collapse injured two workers with Superior Foundations; Swafford said the two originally were taken to Paulding WellStar Hospital, with one possibly later taken to WellStar Kennestone in Marietta.

“One was conscious and talking when he left the site, the other one, I don’t believe, was conscious,” Swafford said.

Neither Swafford nor officials with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, who first responded to the scene, were able to provide the names of the injured workers.

“[The crew] had started erecting the steel on Monday, so they had two and a half days worth of work in erecting the steel, had close to half the building up,” Swafford said. “[They] had some gusts of wind, and it unfortunately collapsed on them.

 “Wind, obviously, is a contributing factor. I don’t know if it’s the only thing—[Occupational Safety and Health Administration] will do an investigation, probably the structural engineer that designed the building, as well as the company that provided the steel … we’ve called an independent investigator as well, so it will be studied and investigated to the best of our ability to figure out exactly what happened why it happened and hopefully not have an issue like that again.”

Swafford said after the collapse, he checked the weather conditions, which showed wind gusts of 17 mph.

“It could’ve easily been twice that earlier today,” he added. “We’re up at the top of a little mountain ridge here, and we do get a significant amount of wind gusts—it’s not unusual at all for us to have wind gusts in the 20-to-25-mph range. I would not have thought that that would exceed what the building could withstand. Buildings are designed to a maximum wind load once they’re completely erected and completely put together, so during the construction process they’re obviously more vulnerable. The company that provided the steel is I’m sure going to do an analysis to see what wind load it should have been able to accommodate at that stage in the construction, so maybe we’ll know at that point whether it was just wind or if there were other factors.”

Cpl. Ashley Henson with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said deputies arrived at the airport after receiving a call about the collapse about 12:45 p.m. Deputies remained on the scene for several hours as officials awaited for OSHA officials and structural engineers to arrive.

Swafford said the collapse would delay completion of the hangar’s construction for an undetermined amount of time.

“This is the new hangar we’ve been building in partnership with our [fixed-based operator], the Paulding Jet Center,” he said. “[It’s a] 35,000-square-foot hangar, so it would accommodate much, much larger airplanes than the first set of hangars we built. It was scheduled to be completed in March—the project was already a little bit behind schedule because of some issues that we had with the foundation when the foundation was poured.