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.frankstonweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/wild-weat...

Wild weather blamed for Seaford house collapse

11 Jan, 2012 04:01 PM

CONSTRUCTION workers were lucky to escape without injuries when high winds caused the partial collapse of a townhouse they were working on in Seaford this morning.

The three-storey home was one of several being built on the Nepean Highway site, near the Riviera Hotel.

Site manager Rick Hammond told the Weekly that people were working on the building when ‘‘a freak gust of wind’’, blew down the frame and some scaffolding at about 9am.

‘‘The trees and everything are down around here. Fortunately no one was hurt,’’ Mr Hammond said.

A WorkSafe Victoria spokeswoman said a WorkSafe inspector had attended the collapsed house and closed the site until recovery procedures were developed.

She said eight workers were on site at the time of the collapse and the incident would be investigated further.

The construction company would need to improve stabilisation at the site, although wild weather had caused problems in the local area, she said.

One SES truck attended the scene and members cordoned off the footpath outside the property and asked construction workers to ensure that the gate was locked to prevent public access.

At 2pm Frankston SES controller Brian McMannis said strong winds continued to lash Frankston and members were busy attending to 60 calls for assistance in the local area.

‘‘The calls are mainly about trees down, roofs damaged by trees and trees across roads. Once people come home and realise there is damage we will get more calls, so I’d say we’ll probably be working through the night,’’ Mr McMannis said.

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Building Collapses As Penguins Fall

PITTSBURGH -- A building collapsed right outside of Tuesday night's Pittsburgh Penguins game, damaging a car and creating a mess of debris.The crumbled building now sits scattered along Colwell and Pride streets in the Hill District.No injuries were reported in the incident.One car received minor damage, police said.The cause of the collapse was under investigation.Meanwhile, the Ottawa Senators made quick work of the Penguins in a 5-1 victory Tuesday.

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Half of road collapses after heavy rain

Posted on January 10, 2012, Tuesday

ANOTHER ROAD COLLAPSE: Traffic jam after the landslip.

KUCHING: A landslip caused one lane of a road near Kampung Merdang Lumut here to collapse, causing traffic congestion along Muara Tuang Road yesterday.

This happened barely two weeks after a similar incident caused a 100-metre stretch of road to sink near Semukoi in Serian.

Like the previous case, the one yesterday was probably caused by heavy rain.

Yesterday, a survey at the landslip found that the remaining lane was passable by vehicles even though the other lane had sunk by three feet.

It was said the road collapsed at about 8am yesterday.

Until yesterday evening, no repair work was done though the collapsed road was closed by the authorities concerned.

There is a drain by the roadside, and it was believed the rainwater had washed away the soil underneath the road following heavy downpour since Sunday night.

There was a traffic jam in the afternoon yesterday as many parents use this road to pick up their children from school.

Police personnel were at the site to ensure smooth traffic flow.

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/01/10/half-of-road-collapses-afte...

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Roof on Affton apartment building collapses, displacing residents

KMOV.com

Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM

(KMOV.com) -- Part of the roof on an Affton, Missouri apartment building caved in Monday morning, forcing everyone in the building to evacuate.

 

Affton Fire Captain, Keith Scaggs, said construction crews were working on the complex roof in the 10000 block of Puttington Drive Monday morning when part of it collapsed.  Four apartment units have been affected by the collapse and everyone in the building was evacuated as a safety precaution.  Scaggs said no injuries were reported.

 

Residents were allowed to go back into the complex and get valuables, but are not allowed to stay in the building.  It is unclear at this time if residents will be able to live there again or how long it will take to repair the roof.

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Toddler dies after plunging into underground sewer when city road collapsed

• Tragedy happened as 18-month-old boy and his mother were walking through Bryansck, Russia

January 9, 2012

A toddler is presumed to have died after he was swept into an underground sewage system when a road collapsed due to a ruptured water pipe yesterday.

The 18-month-old child's mother was pushing him in his buggy through the Russian city of Bryansck when the ground at a crossroads opened up beneath them.

The boy and his mother, a 26-year-old policeman's wife, plunged into the sewer.

Tragedy: A toddler died yesterday after a road in the Russian city of Bryansck collapsed, throwing him into an underground collecting tank for a sewage system

The woman was rescued, but the child was thrown from his pushchair and swept away by the current into a collecting tank for the sewage system.

He is today presumed dead.

While the woman did not sustain any serious injuries, she was rushed to intensive care in a state of severe shock.

The accident happened at a city crossroads in Bryansck (pictured)

Investigators say they are working to determine the cause of the accident, but suspect faulty construction of the system may be to blame.

Underground pipes carrying hot water occasionally burst in Russia, causing the ground above them to suddenly collapse to the peril of those walking above.

A criminal case has been opened into the death of the child.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084029/Toddler-dies-plungi...

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Stairwell collapse in Sidon building traps residents
January 09, 2012 01:46 AM
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: The stairs of a three-story residential building near Omari Mosque in Sidon’s old downtown partially collapsed Sunday, trapping the residents in their homes, the National News Agency reported.

Sidon’s municipal workers rushed to the scene and worked to temporarily support the stairs in order to prevent further collapse until they can be examined by a team of engineers.

The municipality requested that the residents evacuate the building for their safety.

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on January 09, 2012, on page 3.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jan-09/159204-stai...
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Wall collapse causes footpath closure

Thursday, January 5, 2012
4:37 PM

A SECTION of a popular Clevedon footpath has been closed off after a wall collapsed during bad weather.

Blocked footpath.

The stone wall running alongside the path leading from Dial Hill Road and the Zig Zag to Hill Road gave way during high winds and heavy rain on yesterday (Wed), leaving the steps along it completely blocked by earth and rubble.

North Somerset Council closed the affected section for safety reasons and it will remain closed until the owner of the wall has been identified and repair works are made.

It is a privately owned footpath which is not the responsibility of the unitary authority.

People can still access Hill Road from Dial Hill Road by following the path where it forks in a separate direction.

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Breaking news Froghall Lane reopened after chimney collapse

8:59am Thursday 5th January 2012

A CHIMNEY has blown off a home on Froghall Lane, closing it to traffic this morning.

The road was been closed in both directions close to the junction with Midland Way following the incident due to the strong winds. But council bosses confirmed it reopened at 12.30pm

Meanwhile drivers in Glazebrook have been delayed by a fallen free on Dam Head Lane near to the railway lines.

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India building collapse in Delhi kills five

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The roof of a building has collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion in the Indian capital, Delhi, killing five workers.

At least four others were injured in the incident in the Mundka area in the city's north-west.

The explosion took place at 07:25 local time [01:55 GMT] when some of the labourers were cooking, police said.

The one-storey structure was weak and collapsed soon after the explosion, they said.

The injured have been taken to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital.

Building collapses are not uncommon in Delhi.

In September, five people were killed and 25 injured when a building collapsed in the crowded Chandni Mahal area.

In November 2010, at least 67 people died and 100 were injured in a five-storey building collapse in the east of the city.

That disaster was blamed on shoddy construction, extra storeys allegedly being added illegally to the structure and water seepage from the nearby Yamuna river.

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High Winds Cause Dickinson Building to Collapse

Jeremiah McDaniel | 1/3/2012

High winds have ripped through the state throwing debris in the air and causing problems for motorists, but in Dickinson the wind was powerful enough to cause a building to collapse.

The building was an almost completely framed structure on the south side of town. Workers were on the site when the building fell, but they all managed to get out of the way and no one was injured. The project manager says that they knew the wind was coming and took precautions, but their efforts didn`t help.

"We made sure to take necessary precautions for proper bracing and shoring, however, on this project mother nature with 60 mph gusts unfortunately took the structure down, but the silver lining was that no one was injured," said project manager Mike Odegaard.

Odegaard says that the bracing they put up actually caused more wind drag. The structure is almost a complete loss, but crews will start building again when they get all the rubble cleaned up.