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Nigeria building collapse: at least 36 fatalities
- Nov, 01, 2021
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- Nigeria, Lagos
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A 21-storey building which was under construction in the Ikoyi district of Lagos crumbled on Monday afternoon, trapping dozens of people working on the site. The death toll from the collapse of th...
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Bridge in Ravenna Township, Ohio closed due to foundation erosion
- Aug, 25, 2021
- Bridges Damage (Structural) News On Events News On Failures
- United States, Ohio
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A bridge of Newton Falls Road in Ravenna Township, Ohio (USA) has been closed for more than a month and it is not considered to be reopened in the next year due to issues with the bridge's foundation...
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Water pipe bridge collapses in Japan: people forced to line up for supplies
- Oct, 03, 2021
- Bridges Structural Failures Damage (Structural) News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Japan
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A water pipe bridge over the Kinokawa River in Japan collapsed on October 3. One day after the collapse, the water supply continued to be cut off in a large area in this west Japan city and the city...
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Georgia: Part of building collapses causing several fatalities
- Oct, 08, 2021
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- Georgia, Batumi
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A five-story building collapsed in the Georgian Black Sea resort city of Batumi on Friday, and several people are believed to be trapped in the rubble. At least five people, including two children,...
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Australia: Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near Melbourne
- Sep, 22, 2021
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Australia, Melbourne
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A 5.9 magnitude quake hit near Mansfield in the state of Victoria in southern Australia on Wednesday September 22th at 2:15 a.m local time, as the Geoscience Australia, reported. The temblor was so...
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Building collapse in Atlanta: 4 injured after explosion
- Sep, 12, 2021
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- United States, Georgia, Atlanta
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Sunday 12th of September, in suburban Atlanta, a three-storey structure partially collapsed after an explosion. Fortunately, four people who were injured are recovering and the authorities have se...
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Three fatalities in an apartment building collapse in Egypt
- Sep, 09, 2021
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- Egypt
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
One more collapse in just two months occurred on Wednesday in Egypt, in the city of Shoubra el-Khaima in Qalyubia province. It was a four-storey building that was used as the headquarter of a law fi...
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M7.0 earthquake in southwest Mexico
- Sep, 08, 2021
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures News On Events News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Mexico
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck southwest Mexico. According to the United States Geological Survey the quake hit 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) east-northeast of Los Órganos de San Agustín, about eig...
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Category 4 hurricane Ida hit Louisiana: neighborhoods left underwater
- Aug, 29, 2021
- Damage (Structural) Wind Engineering News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures News On Natural Disasters/phenomena
- United States, Louisiana
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Category 4 hurricane Ida hit southeastern Louisiana's Port Fourchon at a around 1 p.m. August 29th and slowly scraped across the state, delivering catastrophic winds and torrential rain to the same...
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House partially collapsed after a portable gas canister exploded in Chesterfield
- Aug, 22, 2021
- Blasting Effects Damage (Structural) News On Events News On Failures
- United Kingdom, Chesterfield
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
At approximately 17:30 BST on Monday a portable gas canister exploded in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, causing the partial collapse of a house. Unfortunately, the blast caused the injury...
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