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Amman, Jordan: a 4-storey building collapses - at least five fatalities
- Sep, 26, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural Concrete Structures
- Jordan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A four-storey residential building in Jordan’s capital, Amman, has collapsed, killing five people, and wounding 14 others, officials said. The toll from the collapse in the city’s Jabal al-Weibdeh d...
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Taiwan earthquake: bridge collapsed and several buildings damaged
- Sep, 26, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural Bridges Structural Behavior
- Taiwan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Drone footage shows a collapsed bridge damaged in a 6.8 earthquake that hit southeastern Taiwan on 18 September 2022. Taiwan's weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung County and followed a...
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Taiwan: 6.9-magnitude earthquake, buildings collapse
- Sep, 20, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural
- Taiwan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse and triggering tsunami warnings. The quake hit the Chishang township in rural southeastern Taiwan and had a...
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Congo: Bridge collapses during ribbon-cutting ceremony
- Sep, 08, 2022
- Bridges Damage (Structural) Structural Failures
- Republic of the Congo
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, v...
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Southwest China: 6.8-magnitude earthquake leaves at least 46 dead
- Sep, 06, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are a...
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Building collapse in Abuja, Nigeria – at least one fatality and two trapped
- Aug, 31, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Concrete Structures Structural Design Other Structural
- Nigeria
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A three-storey building collapsed in Kubwa Satellite town, Abuja on Friday. At least one person has been confirmed dead while Channels Television had earlier reported that two persons were trapped an...
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Βuilding collapse in Lagos: two children dead
- Aug, 24, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Concrete Structures Structural Behavior Other Structural
- Nigeria
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday confirmed that bodies of the two children were recovered in the incident. The children have died following the collapse of a building in...
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: at least six fatalities in building collapse
- Aug, 22, 2022
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Other Structural
- Ethiopia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
At least six people were killed in a building collapse Saturday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, according to a police source. The accident happened when a warehouse collapsed in the Mercat...
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Building collapse in Surjani Town, Pakistan: one fatality and ten injuries
- Aug, 22, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Standards And Design Codes Structural Design Concrete Structures Structural Stability
- Pakistan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An under-construction building in Surjani Town, Pakistan, collapsed. One person died and ten others sustained injuries, two of them in critical condition. According to details, a ground plus four-...
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Bridge in China cracks due to buckling under high temperatures
- Aug, 19, 2022
- Bridges Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Buckling Structural Loads Other Structural
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
In engineering, buckling is a failure mode characterized by a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stresses, where the actual compressive stresses at failure are smalle...
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