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A 5.6-Magnitude Earthquake Struck Nepal – One Fatality, Two Injured and 40 Houses Damaged

An earthquake struck western Nepal on Tuesday, according to a local official. One person is dead and two more were injured while at least 40 houses were damaged. Cattle and farm animals were also bur...

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Building collapse in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city: at least 13 fatalities

Authorities and the media claimed that a building collapsed on Sunday in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, killing 13 people, including children. The ministry noted that the five-story struct...

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271 building collapse recorded in Nigeria the last 10 years

According to documents from the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, 271 buildings have collapsed in Nigeria over the past ten years. The highest number of fatalities due to building collapse is recor...

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Five-storey building collapse in Egypt: at least six fatalities

Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. At least six people were killed...

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Hotel roof collapse in Turkey: dozens injured

At least 32 people were injured on Saturday in a hotel in the town of Sarikamis, in the northeastern province of Kars, Turkey when the roof of a hotel collapsed during a documentary screening. In p...

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Bridge collapses in Woodville, Mississippi; no injuries reported

A bridge collapsed in Woodville, Mississippi, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Woodville is in the southwest corner of Mississippi, a few miles from the Louisiana border. The Wilkinson County Emergency Manag...

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Portsmouth house collapse: Poor quality of the bricks may cause the partial collapse

A terraced house is believed to have collapsed due to the low grade bricks used to build it. The house in Langford Road, Portsmouth caved in on 7 December and caused the partial collapse of the home...

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A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California: outages and damage were reported

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Sunday for the second time in less than two weeks, causing power outages and damage, according to officials. The New Year's Day earthquake, w...

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Delhi’s Shashti Nagar: Video shows a four-storey building collapses

A four-storey building collapsed in Delhi’s Shashti Nagar Monday (5 December 2022) morning. A horrifying video is doing rounds on social media in which can be seen the building collapsing on the road...

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Indonesia earthquake: at least 271 fatalities, 40 missing - search for survivors from rescuers

A 5.6 magnitude quake struck a mountainous region in Indonesia on Monday, causing landslides that buried entire villages near the West Java town of Cianjur. The earthquake, which struck at a shallow...

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