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Australia: Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near Melbourne
- Sep, 22, 2021
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Three-storey building collapsed in Spain
- Aug, 26, 2021
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- Spain
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Wednesday evening, August 25th, in the "Font Nova" housing estate in Peñíscola, about 130 kilometres northeast of Valencia, a three-storey apartment building collapsed. As a result, two people die...
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Building collapse in Egypt, at least 5 fatalities
- Aug, 20, 2021
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- Egypt
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Friday 20th of August, a five-floor building collapsed in downtown Damanhur city in Egypt's Beheira Province, state-run Ahram. As a result, five people lost their lives while two were injured. A...
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For the second time within a year, the London landmark Tower Bridge stuck open due to a technical failure
- Aug, 10, 2021
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- United Kingdom, London
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
For the second time within a year, after a mechanical failure in August 2020, the world-famous, landmark, London Tower Bridge remained stuck open again on August 10th, with cars and pedestrians unab...
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Haiti update: Tropical Storm Grace following the M7.2 earthquake
- Aug, 17, 2021
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- Haiti
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
After the 7.2 earthquake of Haiti the death toll rise to 1,419 while more than 6,900 people injured. The authorities can not estimate how many are still missing. The real challenge that rescue has...
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