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Six houses lost to the Atlantic in North Carolina’s Outer Banks

Six unoccupied homes in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 1, 2025, as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda stirred heavy surf offshore. The houses, once elevated on woode...

Fatal School Collapse in Indonesia Traps Dozens of Students

Rescue operations continue in East Java, Indonesia, after the collapse of the Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo left dozens of students trapped beneath the rubble. The incident occurred...

Foundation Failure Triggers Building Collapse in Victoria, Gozo

On September 27, 2025, heavy rainfall in Victoria, Gozo, caused the partial collapse of several abandoned buildings along Triq Pawlu Portelli. The foundations gave way, sending the structures crashin...

Outburst Flood from Barrier Lake Destroys Highway Bridge in Hualien

Super Typhoon Ragasa delivered extreme rainfall across eastern Taiwan, where a barrier lake that had formed from earlier landslide debris on Matai’an Creek abruptly failed. The outburst flood destroy...

Building Collapse in Yaba Leaves Three Dead, Several Rescued

A building collapse occurred on the evening of September 12, 2025, at No. 333 Borno Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos. The structure, reported as a three- to four-storey building under construction, gav...

Pool Deck Initiation and Progressive Collapse Path on the Surfside, Florida, Condo Building

Federal investigators report that the 2021 partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside likely initiated in the pool deck rather than the tower superstructure. Based on large-scale structur...

Nearly 70 Containers Fall from Mississippi Vessel in California Port

On September 9, 2025, nearly 70 shipping containers fell from the cargo vessel Mississippi while berthed at Pier G of the Port of Long Beach. The incident occurred around 9 a.m. when the Portugal-fla...

Five Dead, Nine Injured in Virar Apartment Collapse

On August 26, 2025, tragedy struck Virar East in Maharashtra’s Palghar district when part of the Ramabai Apartment collapsed, killing five people and injuring nine others. Rescue teams from the fire...

Steel Arch Bridge Fails During Construction in China Claiming 12 Lives

A devastating collapse of a railway bridge under construction in northwest China’s Qinghai Province claimed the lives of at least 12 workers, with four still reported missing. The incident occurred i...

Marmara Earthquake: Preparedness and Lessons 26 Years On

On August 17, 1999, the Marmara region of Türkiye was struck by a devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Gölcük, Kocaeli. The tremor lasted 45 seconds, claiming more than 17,000 l...

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