Venezuela, an earthquake and building collapses
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Atorod Azizinamini, professor in the department of civil engineering, shares his insight on the earthquake and the importance of resilient infrastructure.
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Nine people killed in building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria
Twenty seven people were rescued with injuries of varying severity; governor orders safety checks on surrounding area.
An old video of a block of flats crumpling to the ground after an earthquake was filmed in Turkey, contrary to posts claiming it shows a building collapsing after Venezuela's major back-to-back tremors in June 2026.
Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.
Older buildings, substandard construction and geography left many neighborhoods in Venezuela vulnerable to collapse in strong earthquakes like the ones that struck the country this week
The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021, but the building had been vulnerable from the start, federal investigators found in a final report issued Monday.
Family members, survivors and community leaders gathered in Surfside to remember the 98 people killed in the Champlain Towers South collapse.
The apartment block in Limassol where two balconies collapsed and fell onto a parked car on the street below had not been classified as dangerous, but had been highlighted by the city’s municipality as “in need of maintenance”,
The Rivers State Government has dismissed claims that it approved the building plan for the five-storey structure that collapsed along Odili Road, Port
