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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4-year-old Manhattan girl escapes virtually uninjured from scaffolding collapse

A 4-year-old girl on her way to school on the Upper East Side escaped virtually unharmed this morning after she was struck by a wood plank during a scaffolding collapse.

Workers were removing scaffolding in front of a building at 130 East 75th Street near Park Ave. when a piece of wood fell and hit the child.

Rochelle Siskind, 39, said she was taking her daughter, Jessica, to school around 8 a.m. at Temple Israel on East 75th Street.

"I heard a loud bang and a plank was over her whole body," she told The Post.

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This piece of wooden scaffolding fell onto a 4-year-old girl today.

A shaken Siskind quickly came to her daughter's aid.

"She was crying," Siskind said of her daughter. "A bunch of people ran over to help. I picked her up and brought her into the school."

The girl later underwent an exam and was found to only have suffered a bruise on her shoulder.

"It's surreal," Siskind said. "Thank God she's fine. You just never know. That's the problem with scaffolding in the city."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/year_old_manhattan_gir...

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Rescue under way after building collapse

8:13am Wednesday 25th January 2012

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/9490913.Rescue_under_way_after_b...

Part of the roof of a derelict building has collapsed, sparking fears someone could be trapped beneath the rubble.

A specialist fire service search and rescue team, with a sniffer dog, is currently at the scene in Chesham Street, Keighley.

The alarm was raised at about 2.30am today when a security guard at the former Keighley College’s Harold Town building reported that part of the roof had collapsed and a shout had been heard.

Police were called and they alerted the fire brigade, which mobilised two crews from Keighley Fire Station and the specialist unit from Cleckheaton.

Keighley watch commander Steve Moorhouse said: “It is believed that someone may have been inside the building.

“Teams are still at the scene searching through the debris.”

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Wow Malou, Found a link to a video and this is a doozy.  A girl that lives on the other side of the building said everything shakes and it sounded like an earthquake and that big beautiful white house that's hanging over the cliff......well yeah....that doesn't look too promising.  I'm thinking there's going to be alot more of these.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&a...

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Syria: Building collapses in Homs after apparent shelling trapping people in the rubble

Amateur footage purports to show the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of a building in the Bab Tadmur area of Homs in which many people were reported killed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9036758/...

7:02PM GMT 24 Jan 2012

Amateur videos apparently show the debris of a house in the Bab Tadmur area of Homs, which purportedly collapsed under shelling today with people trapped inside.

Footage from the immediate aftermath of the collapse shows injured people being carried away amongst fires and debris.

Local activist Mohammed Saleh said 17 people were killed in the attack. The umbrella group Local Coordination Committees claimed 30 people were killed.

Clips from later on show smoke still rising from the wreckage and people combing through the debris.

The videos cannot be independently verified because of foreign reporting restrictions in the country.

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PART OF THE HOUSE WHERE GRAMSCI LIVED COLLAPSED IN TURIN

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201201241430...

14:30 24 GEN 2012

(AGI) Turin - Part of the house where Antonio Gramsci lived in Turin collapsed this morning. The building overlooks piazza Carlo Emanuele II (that Torinesi call piazza Carlina) in central Turin. It seems that the collapse took place at fifth floor, which is being restored, without causing any harm to people. Some rubble hit the cars parked below. The fire brigade cordoned off the area. . .
 

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http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20120123/NEWS01/120123012/Buildin...|head

One killed, one taken to hospital after building collapses in Greenfield

1:30 PM, Jan. 23, 2012

Workers try to clear rubble of a building that collapsed in Greenfield this morning. / KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun

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Emergency workers respond to the collapse of a building on Front Street in downtown Greenfield this morning. / KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun

GREENFIELD — Witnesses who have been on the scene since 10 a.m. say one person was killed after a building collapsed in downtown Greenfield this morning, and emergency workers removed a second injured person from the building.

The injured person was taken to a hospital.

Weakley County emergency communications director Jamison Peevyhouse said about 1:30 p.m. that emergency responders are trying to clear debris to get to the body.

Peevyhouse said three people were in the area of the building when it collapsed.

The building at 108 N. Front St. housed Legend's Little Italy Pizza, according to a City Hall spokeswoman.

The restaurant was not open at the time of the collapse, she said.

The Jackson Sun has a reporter and photographer at the scene in Greenfield.

Check jacksonsun.com for further updates as more information becomes available.

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Two detained over scaffolding fall as bodies identified

Jan 23, 2012 

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/two-detained-over-scaffoldi...

ABU DHABI // Two men have been detained on suspicion of negligence in connection with a fatal construction accident that was caused by improperly secured scaffolding under excessive weight, police said today.

The chief of security and safety and the technician responsible for installing scaffolds from Al Diyar general contracting are being held on suspicion of neglect, police said.

It was not clear whether the men have been formally charged with a crime.

Five men fell from the building next to the Euro Hotel on Muroor Road in the capital on Friday after scaffolding collapsed for the second time in two days. Police said one of the men died.

The scaffolding racks collapsed because they were not secured firmly enough, and they fell on top of one worker who died on the spot, the police investigation has found.

Col Ibrahim Al Zaabi, head of the Alshabiya police station, said excessive weight on the scaffolds and gravity were the reasons for the collapse.

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http://news.peacefmonline.com/social/201201/90427.php

Two Trapped To Death

Date: 23-Jan-2012

Two persons died, while four were seriously injured when an uncompleted church building collapsed on a wooden structure in which they were sleeping at Abonko in Tema Newtown.

The bodies of the deceased, Maame Adwoa, six, and Ebo Quansah, 52, have been deposited at the Police Hospital Mortuary, while the injured are receiving medical attention.

Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic, the Tema Regional Fire Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Timothy Osafo Affum, said the station had a distress call at about 5 a.m. yesterday, alerting them of the disaster.

He said the fire personnel responded immediately but on reaching the scene, they discovered that the incident actually occurred about 4 a.m.

According to Mr Osafo Affum, those who died were still trapped under the wooden structure, while the injured had been sent to hospital for attention.

Mr Affum said the church building, a property of the Gospel Teaching Ministry, might have been weak at the foundation level, leading to its collapse.

He said the area was waterlogged and that stagnant waters might have weakened the foundation of the church, which eventually collapsed onto the wooden structure, killing the two occupants.

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http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/wet-weather-collapses-road-oakland-hi...

Wet weather collapses road in Oakland Hills

 

OAKLAND, Calif. —

Wet weather caused a remote road in the Oakland Hills to collapse Saturday and caused some residents to lose water and power.

Early Saturday morning, a vacant hillside lot below Wild Currant Road gave way onto Oakwood Drive.

The East Bay Municipal Utility District was working to get to the root of the landslide.

EBMUD workers said Friday night's rain may have caused a water main to break.

Mike Hengelman, an Oakland Hills resident, said he didn't hear the hillside fall, instead he just saw mud onhis steps.

"The hillside just came tumbling down," Hengelman said. "Then I walked out the front door and said, 'Ah, well that's unusual.' There used to be a road there."

PG&E crews were working on cutting away the downed branches and getting the power lines back in service.

"We lost power for a little while but it came back on and they're doing their thing," Hengelman added.

No evacuations were ordered, but some residents were without water Saturday night.

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http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-roof-collapse-hurts...

2 hurt in Allentown house balcony collapse

A balcony at 24 S. Leh St., Allentown, apartment house lies in pieces after it collapsed 11:30 p.m. Friday, injuring two people.

January 21, 2012

A second-floor balcony collapsed from a west Allentown apartment house Friday night, injuring two people.

The collapse was reported 11:30 p.m. at 24 S. Leh St., a block south of W. Hamilton Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets. The two injured people may have been standing on the balcony when it broke away.

At least one of the injured was taken by Cetronia Ambulance to the hospital.

Dispatchers initially radioed that firefighters should be ready for a rescue, but it did not appear anyone was trapped in the rubble when firetrucks arrived.