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.thestar.com/news/article/1135196--mississauga-house-turn...

House on Cawthra Road in Mississauga collapses

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Peel Regional Police are investigating a house collapse at on Cawthra Rd. near Bloor St. in Mississauga on Wednesday morning.

The house, which was built in the 1940s, was undergoing construction when for unknown reasons, it collapsed to the ground.

Three construction workers were at the scene at 8:30 a.m. when it happened, but were not inside the building and escaped what could have been serious injuries.

After the collapse, Mississauga firefighters were on scene and detected the smell of gas, prompting a visit from Enbridge Gas and the temporary evacuation of two nearby homes.

Toula Kalantzakos, a resident on the street for 28 years, never saw a problem with the house in the past.

“It’s a nice house,” she said. “I saw some construction at the back. I think they were making it bigger.”

The now site belongs to Olympia Windows and Doors, a company that specializes in windows for older and heritage homes. The company renovated the house at 3447 Cawthra Rd. in 1991 and converted the lot to Olympia’s showroom and office.

The company is owned by Emilio Lavignasse and his wife. He said he was too busy for an interview.

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http://kojects.com/2012/02/20/subway-construction-suspected-in-inch...

Subway Construction Suspected in Incheon Street Collapse

February 20, 2012 2 Comments

Police are investigating a road which has collapsed above a subway construction site in Incheon. On the 18th of February at 3:20pm, the center of a six lane road collapsed in front of an apartment building in Wanggil-dong, a suburb in the western district of Incheon. Sadly, a 50 year old man riding a motorcycle over the piece of road at the time of collapse fell into the hole but died several hours later in hospital. Water was cut to several thousand households in Wanggil-dong and neighbouring Oryu-dong, but was restored later that night. Police are focusing on CCTV footage and have maintained a detour around the site while carrying out their investigation.

Below the road, the tunnel for Incheon’s line number 2 was being dug out and police suspect that construction somehow caused the road foundations to become weak. Construction on Incheon’s second line began in June 2009 and is expected to be completed in 2014. Wanggil-dong is located on the northern part of the subway line which will continue south and provide new rail access to the many areas of Incheon still without it. Depending on the results of the investigation into the incident, Incheon may see itself having to wait even longer for the new line. Incheon’s first inner city subway was opened in 1999.

Watch out for a more detailed post on Incheon’s Line 2 in the future.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/9-year-old-killed-in...

9-year-old killed in wall collapse

Nitasha Natu, TNN | Feb 21, 2012, 12.52AM IST

MUMBAI: A nine-year-old boy was killed after the compound wall of a 32-year-old building collapsed on him in Dahisar (E) on Monday. The victim, Prathamesh Mahadik, was walking on a common path between the building and a chawl where he stayed on DN Dube Road when the incident took place around 4.20pm.

The Dahisar police have written to the BMC to ascertain if negligence charges can be applied in the case. As of now, an accidental death case has been registered. Prathamesh, a Std III student of St Xavier's school in Dahisar (E), . His father Gajana, ran a lottery tickets store. The family stayed at Arjun Mandal chawl. "The compound wall belonged to Jayant Patan Mandal building," which was constructed in 1979," . The five-feet high wall fenced a 1500 square feet ground and was dilapidated. It suddenly gave way while Prathamesh was walking down a common between the building and the chawl," investigating officer Deepak Girkar said. As Sunday was his day off, Prathamesh's mother had sent him to a neighbouring shop to buy tea along with his sister Riya (6), who escaped unhurt as she was walking way ahead of him. Prathamesh was rushed to the Bhagwati Hospital after Riya summoned their neighbours. Doctors declared him dead at the hospital. Prathamesh had sustained severe head injuries besides internal injuries and there was immense blood loss, doctors said.

Officials from the BMC and the fire brigade visited the spot.

The BMC will conduct an inquiry into the incident.

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2914015.ece

5 hurt in building collapse

Staff Reporter

The Hindu An old residential building on Ekambareswarar Koil, Agraharam Street in Park Town that collapsed on Monday morning. Five persons were injured in the incident. Photo: R. Ragu

A house in Park Town, said to be over 100 years old, collapsed partially on Monday morning injuring five persons, including the owner. Police said the condition of the injured persons is stable. The wife of the owner, who was inside the building, escaped unhurt.

The accident occurred at 11.45 a.m. when a portion of the wall on the first floor of the house belonging to Hansraj (75), located on Ekambareswarar Koil, Agraharam Street in Mahaveer Market, came down crashing.

“The huge wall came down in a second and a tempo driver walking on the road was trapped under the debris. Other sections of the building followed suit,” said V. Siva, an employee of a shop in the market, who witnessed the incident.

Bystanders and shopkeepers rushed in and pulled out the man, later identified as Durairaj (35) who had parked his vehicle in the market and was walking towards a shop, Siva said.

Elephant Gate police said a few workers were involved in demolishing a section of the house.

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http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/man_trapped_in_northam...

Published on Monday 20 February 2012 07:40

Man trapped in Northampton home during gas leak as cracks appear across ceiling and walls

A TENANT was trapped in his home with a gas leak in his cellar and a house that was starting to cave in, after an electricity sub-station next door began to sink.

The sub-station, in St Edmund’s Road, Northampton town centre, had wide cracks at the top of an outer wall yesterday and another running almost the height of the back wall after subsidence caused the foundations to shift on Saturday morning.

Hein Swart, aged 34, said he was woken by the sound of his home cracking under strain from the adjacent building but was unable to get out the front door.

He said: “I thought it was kids on the roof or something, but I went downstairs and saw cracks all along the ceiling, one an inch wide, and more across the walls.

“I went to get out the door straight away but the wall had pushed down on it and it wouldn’t open,” he told the Chron.

“I could hear the fire brigade outside say they were going to kick the door in but I had to tell him that wasn’t such a good idea, given what it was supporting.”

On eventually getting outside – his back garden has no access to a main road – the firefighter, who had begun to evacuate Mr Swart’s neighbours, detected a strong smell of gas and police were called to close off the road.

Firefighters later found that the cellars of Mr Swart’s home and three others were filled with gas as the subsidence had ruptured a main pipe underground.

Jim Dorrell, the Mereway station manger, said: “When there is electricity and gas together, there is always a danger of an explosion so we evacuated people and called out the utility companies to make sure people were safe.

“The gas main can’t be turned off like a water pipe so they let it leak out into the atmosphere where it is harmless to reduce the levels.

“You can have too much gas for an explosion or too little and we were trying to keep it out of that dangerous middle ground.”

The partial collapse also caused an underground water leak so workers from all three utilities were called out by fire crews.

Others workmen erected scaffolding to safeguard against further collapse of the substation, which serves a number of businesses in the town centre.

Police said early indications were that the closure of St Edmund’s Road could last for several days, with disruption to traffic in the immediate area, although evacuated residents were believed to be allowed home by last night.

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Lober fire station in Sewickley Township partially collapses

Sunday, February 19, 2012

A fire station in Sewickley Township partially collapsed on Thursday night.

Lowber fire Chief Brian Nicholls said the building on Lowber Road had structural damage, but no one was injured in the collapse.

The fire department was holding a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the damage, he said.

Nicholls would not provide any further details about the collapse, including the cause or the extent of damage.

Read more: Lober fire station in Sewickley Township partially collapses - Pitt... http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/westmoreland/s_...

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China concert seating collapse injures 64
February 18, 2012 04:28 GMT

BEIJING (AP) -- A seating section has collapsed at a concert by Hong Kong pop star Wang Fei in southwest China, injuring 64 people.

The state-run Beijing News says concertgoers suffered cuts, broken bones and head injuries after scaffolding behind the stage broke apart Friday night. Those seated in the area fell about 5 feet (1.5 meters) to the concrete floor of the city of Chongqing's Olympic stadium.

The paper says none of the injuries is life-threatening. The concert has been rescheduled for Monday.

Wang, also known as Faye Wong, was one of the Chinese-speaking world's biggest stars in the 1980s and 1990s and still boasts a massive fan base in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese communities overseas.

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http://www.laneytower.com/news/building-front-collapses-1.2784754#....

Building front collapses

Published: Thursday, February 16, 2012

Updated: Friday, February 17, 2012 20:02

Michael Sanders/Laney Tower

The rubble has been cleared from the area, but it still unclear whether the building is safe.

 

  The Oakland police received a call about an explosion from concerned residents of a local community on Feb. 6.

  When police arrived there were no signs of an explosion, just hundreds of bricks that had fallen from the Express Market and liquor store located at 1250 International Blvd.

  No one was hurt in the unexpected avalanche. Oakland Police investigated the premises 15 minutes after the accident.  Firefighters arrived almost immediately since the site is directly across the street from a fire department.

  Local residents, passersby, and school children took time to stop and look in amazement as a two-man work crew piled the heavy debris on the sidewalk. The cause of the accident has yet to be determined by investigators, as they look further into what might have caused the building to suddenly lose some of its exterior.  

  One local resident, Susan Li, commented, "I am happy no one was walking by and got hurt. Maybe it has been a long time since the building has been retrofitted." Workers say that it will take quite some time to repair the building. Costs of repair, which the owner is responsible for, are currently unknown.

  The store and the corner that it resides on will be roped off until the fire department can determine if further collapse is possible. Hassan Ahmed who rents the building was very upset and has no idea when he will be open for business.  "I don't know anything, I am surprised I came to open and the police were here. I am glad no one was hurt."

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Mississippi River........ Another article with pictures of the grain elevator that collapsed and now lies across the Mississippi levee.

http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2012/02/ama_bisected_after_co...

Ama bisected after collapse of grain elevator crossing

The collapse of a conveyor system at an Ama grain elevator could result in an "extended closure" of River Road in the area, while company officials determine the extent of the damage.

BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEA portion of a grain elevator conveyor lies across the Mississippi River levee in Ama after collapsing Friday, February 17, 2012. St. Charles Parish officials have closed Louisiana 18 at the ADM Growmark grain elevator as a precautionary measure, according to the St. Charles Parish Emergency Operations Center.

The closure will be inconvenient to residents of the community of about 1,300 located just upriver from Waggaman on the west bank of St. Charles Parish. Many will be required to drive miles out of their way to go around the roadblock.

The conveyor at the ADM Growmark elevator collapsed on the north side of Louisiana 18 early Friday afternoon. The road wasn't blocked or damaged, but authorities quickly blocked traffic because company officials wanted to determine the integrity of the structure above the roadway that connects the elevator and the docks on the Mississippi River.

Deputies are blocking River Road at South Kenner Avenue in Waggaman and in the vicinity of Barton Avenue in Luling. Residents on both sides of the elevator must detour to U.S. 90 until further notice.

Company officials told parish officials that no injuries reported the incident.

Parish officials say that emergency vehicles will continue to have access to the community.

Company officials could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.

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http://www.lex18.com/news/wall-collapse-at-popular-lincoln-co-hallo...

Wall Collapse At Popular Lincoln Co. Halloween Attraction

Posted: Feb 16, 2012 6:12 AM
Updated: Feb 16, 2012 7:48 AM

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Bricks and mortar fell into the street when a wall collapsed at a popular central Kentucky Halloween attraction Wednesday night.

The owner of the old Hustonville Haunted House on Main Street in Lincoln County says the wall fell around 8 p.m., leaving an 8-foot hole in the side of the 100-plus year old building. Paul Gray says he thinks a combination of age and water damage caused the collapse.

Gray says he expects the popular haunted house will be ready to go for its 19th Halloween season later this year.

Old Liberty Road remains blocked while crews clean up the mess.

Nobody was hurt.