List of structural failures and collapses

A list of structural failures and collapses, including some aircraft

Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...

, bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers.

Buildings and other fixed man-made structures

Year	Structure	Location	type
226 BC	Colossus of Rhodes Colossus of Rhodes The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek Titan Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of...	City of Rhodes, Island of Rhodes Rhodes Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...	statue
27	Fidenae amphitheatre collapse	Fidenae Fidenae Fidenae, or Fidenes, home of the Fidenates, was an ancient town of Latium, situated about 8 km north of Rome on the Via Salaria, which ran between it and the Tiber. As the Tiber was the border between Etruria and Latium, the left-bank settlement of Fidenae represented an extension of Etruscan... , Italia, Roman Empire Roman Empire The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....	amphitheatre
140	Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus Circus Maximus The Circus Maximus is an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire...	Rome, Italia, Roman Empire	amphitheatre
558	Dome of Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...	Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:... , Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...	church
1284	Choir of Beauvais Cathedral	Beauvais, France	church
1297	Stirling Bridge	Stirling, Scotland	bridge
1303	Lighthouse of Alexandria Lighthouse of Alexandria The Lighthouse of Alexandria, also known as the Pharos of Alexandria , was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt...	Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving... , Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...	tower
1322	Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral is the principal church of the Diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, and is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon... Tower Collapse	Ely, England	church
1382	Bell tower of St. Mary's church, Stralsund St. Mary's church, Stralsund St. Mary's Church is located in Stralsund, northern Germany.Built some time before 1298, it is architecturally Gothic, and was loosely modelled on St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. Between 1625 and 1647, it was the world's second tallest building at tall, after 160 m tall Lincoln Cathedral.The bell...	Stralsund, Hanseatic League Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe... (Stralsund is now in Germany)	church
1444	Rialto Bridge Rialto Bridge The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line for the districts of San Marco and San Polo.- History :...	Venice, Republic of Venice Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797. It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice and is often referred to as La Serenissima, in...	bridge
1500	Malmesbury Abbey Malmesbury Abbey Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. In 941 AD, King Athelstan was buried in the Abbey. By the 11th century it contained the second largest library in Europe and was...	Malmesbury, England	church
1529	St. Elisabeth's Church, Wrocław	Wroclaw, Bohemia Kingdom of Bohemia The Kingdom of Bohemia was a country located in the region of Bohemia in Central Europe, most of whose territory is currently located in the modern-day Czech Republic. The King was Elector of Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, whereupon it became part of the Austrian Empire, and... (now in Poland)	church
1549	Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years . The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt...	Lincoln, England	church
1573	Tower of Beauvais Cathedral	Beauvais, France	church
1577	Martinikerk Martinikerk Martinikerk is the oldest church in Groningen, The Netherlands. The church and its associated tower are named after Saint Martin of Tours , the patron saint of the Archbishopric of Utrecht to which Groningen belongs....	Groningen, free city; now part of The Netherlands	church
1625	Tower of St. Olaf's church, Tallinn	Tallinn, Sweden (now in Estonia)	church
1647	Tower of St. Mary's church, Stralsund St. Mary's church, Stralsund St. Mary's Church is located in Stralsund, northern Germany.Built some time before 1298, it is architecturally Gothic, and was loosely modelled on St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. Between 1625 and 1647, it was the world's second tallest building at tall, after 160 m tall Lincoln Cathedral.The bell...	Stralsund, Duchy of Pomerania Duchy of Pomerania The Duchy of Pomerania was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania .... (now in Germany)	church
1661	Tower of Reinoldikirche Reinoldikirche The Protestant St. Reinoldi-church is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund, Germany; it is dedicated to Saint Reinoldus, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatinate church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with ...	Dortmund, Hanseatic League (now in Germany)	church
1666	Old St Paul's Cathedral Old St Paul's Cathedral Old St Paul's Cathedral is a name used to refer to the medieval cathedral of the City of London which until 1666 stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built between 1087 and 1314 and dedicated to St Paul, the cathedral was the fourth church on the site at Ludgate Hill...	London, England	church
1666	St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church is a tall Lutheran church in Riga, Latvia, named after Saint Peter.-History:First mention of the St. Peter's Church is in records dating to 1209. The church was a masonry construction and therefore undamaged by a city fire in Riga that year...	Riga, Sweden (now in Latvia)	church
17th century	Abbaye-aux-Hommes Abbaye-aux-Hommes The Abbaye aux Hommes is a former abbey church in the French city of Caen, Normandy. Dedicated to Saint Stephen , it is considered, along with the neighbouring Abbaye aux Dames , to be one of the most notable Romanesque buildings in Normandy. Like all the major abbeys in Normandy, it was Benedictine...	Caen, France	church
1674	Nave of the Dom Church	Utrecht, The Netherlands	church
1697	Tower of St. Michael's Church, Cluj-Napoca	Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania Transylvania Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical... (now in Romania)	church
1721	St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church is a tall Lutheran church in Riga, Latvia, named after Saint Peter.-History:First mention of the St. Peter's Church is in records dating to 1209. The church was a masonry construction and therefore undamaged by a city fire in Riga that year...	Riga, Sweden/Russia Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia With the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710 the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia were integrated into the Russian Empire following their conquest during the Great Northern War... , now in Latvia	church
1763	Tower of St. Michael's Church, Cluj-Napoca	Cluj-Napoca, Habsburg Monarchy Habsburg Monarchy The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918. The Imperial capital was Vienna, except from 1583 to 1611, when it was moved to Prague... (now in Romania)	church
1777	Collegiate church of St. Mary Magdalene	Poznan, Prussia (now in Poland)	church
1831	Broughton Suspension Bridge Broughton Suspension Bridge Broughton Suspension Bridge was a suspended-deck suspension bridge built in 1826 to span the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton, now in Greater Manchester, England. It was one of the first suspension bridges constructed in Europe. On 12 April 1831 the bridge collapsed, reportedly owing...	Broughton, UK
1845	Yarmouth Bridge	Yarmouth, UK
1847	Dee bridge disaster Dee bridge disaster The Dee bridge disaster was a rail accident that occurred on 24 May 1847 in Chester with five fatalities.A new bridge across the River Dee was needed for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, a project planned in the 1840s for the expanding British railway system. It was built using cast iron girders,...	Chester Chester Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the... , UK
1850	Angers Bridge Angers Bridge Angers Bridge, also called the Basse-Chaîne Bridge, was a suspension bridge over the Maine River in Angers, France. It was designed by Joseph Chaley and Bordillon, and built between 1836 and 1839...	Angers Angers Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins.... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1860	Pemberton Mill Pemberton Mill The Pemberton Mill was a large factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which collapsed without warning on January 10, 1860 in what is likely "the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history" and "one of the worst industrial calamities in American history"...	Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 76,377. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast. It and Salem are... , USA
1860	Wooton Bridge Collapse Wooton bridge collapse The Wootton bridge collapse occurred on 11 June 1861, when the rail bridge at Wootton collapsed under the weight of a passing goods train on the line between Leamington Spa and Kenilworth owned by the London and North Western Railway Company. The train had passed over the bridge safely in the...	Wootton, UK
1860	Bull bridge accident Bull bridge accident The Bull bridge accident was a failure of a cast-iron bridge at Bullbridge, near Ambergate in Derbyshire on 26 September 1860. As a goods train was passing over the bridge at Bullbridge, the structure failed suddenly, causing the derailment of the majority of the wagons...	Ambergate, UK
1861	Chichester Cathedral Chichester Cathedral The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called Chichester Cathedral, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in Sussex, England... Spire Collapse	Chichester, UK	church
1864	Dale Dike Reservoir Dale Dike Reservoir Dale Dike Reservoir or Dale Dyke Reservoir , famous for causing the Great Sheffield Flood, is in the north-east Peak District, in the City of Sheffield South Yorkshire, England, a mile west of Bradfield, eight miles from the centre of Sheffield, on the Dale Dike, a tributary of the River...	South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom	dam
1875	Portage Bridge	Portage (town), New York Portage (town), New York Portage is a town in the southwest corner of Livingston County, New York, USA. The town is near the south end of Letchworth State Park. The name of the town stems from the need to portage canoes around the falls of the Genesee River.- History :... , USA
1876	Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster was a train disaster caused by bridge failure...	Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
1879	Tay Bridge disaster Tay Bridge disaster The Tay Bridge disaster occurred on 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge, which crossed the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Wormit in Scotland, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it. The bridge was designed by the noted railway engineer Sir Thomas Bouch,...	Dundee Dundee Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... , UK
1887	Busey bridge disaster	Boston, USA
1889	South Fork Dam South Fork Dam The South Fork Dam was located on Lake Conemaugh, an artificial body of water located near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed catastrophically and 20 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh burst through and raced 14 miles downstream, causing the...	Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County... , United States	dam
1890	Walnut Grove Dam	Wickenburg, Arizona Territory, United States
1896	Point Ellice Bridge	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1902	St. Mark's Campanile	Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Italy
1902	Ibrox disaster Ibrox disaster The Ibrox disaster refers to two accidents, in 1902 and 1971, which led to major loss of life at the Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland.-First Ibrox disaster:...	Glasgow, United Kingdom
1904	Eden Railroad Bridge Collapse	Eden, Colorado, USA
1905	Egyptian Bridge Egyptian Bridge Egyptian Bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia, carries Lermontov Avenue over the Fontanka River.The one-span suspension bridge that it replaced was of historical interest as a monument to early 19th-century Egyptomania. It was constructed in 1825-1826 based on designs by two civil engineers, Von...	Saint Petersburg, Russia
1907	Quebec Bridge Quebec Bridge right\|thumb\|Lifting the centre span in place was considered to be a major engineering achievement. Photo caption from [[Popular Mechanics]] Magazine, December 1917...	Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... , Quebec Quebec Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.... , Canada
1912	Mast of Nauen Transmitter Station Nauen Transmitter Station Nauen Transmitter Station in Nauen, Havelland , Brandenburg, Germany, is the oldest transmitting plant in the world. It was founded on 1 April 1906 by Telefunken engineer R...	Nauen, Germany
1916	Desná Dam	Desná, Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in... (now in the Czech Republic)
1919	Molasses Tank Boston molasses disaster The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the...	Boston Boston Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had... , Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010... , USA	Tank
1925	Three masts of Norddeich Transmitting Station Norddeich station Norddeich station was a wireless radio station in Norddeich, Germany.-Background:The station was originally going to set up on the Island of Borkum but in the end Norddeich was chosen....	Norddeich, Germany
1925	Llyn Eigiau dam, Coedty reservoir dam	Dolgarrog, North Wales, UK
1927	Western mast of Zeesen transmitter Deutschlandsender Zeesen Deutschlandsender Zeesen was a facility for longwave broadcasting near Zeesen, a village south of Königs Wusterhausen in Germany.Deutschlandsender Zeesen was built in 1927. Hereby the western of the two masts of the facility collapsed, as its construction reached a height of 40 metres. By this...	Zeesen, Germany
1928	St. Francis Dam St. Francis Dam The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity-arch dam, designed to create a reservoir as a storage point of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. It was located 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California, near the present city of Santa Clarita....	Valencia, California, Los Angeles County, United States
1930	Towers of Stadelheim Transmitter Stadelheim Transmitter Stadelheim Transmitter was a medium-wave broadcast transmitter in Munich-Stadelheim, built in 1926 in the neighbourhood of the famous prison. As antenna this transmitter, which took up its experimental operation on March 1, 1926 and on April 1, 1926 its final operation, a t-antenna hung up on two...	Munich, Germany
1934	Seta river railroad bridge	Otsu, Japan
1935	Langenberg Wooden Radio Tower collapse	Langenberg Langenberg Langenberg is a quarter in Velbert, a German city. Located in this district is the famous Sender Langenberg transmission site, which transmits MW, FM, and TV broadcasting signals.... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
1937	Kasai River Bridge Collapse	Kasai, Belgian Congo Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between King Leopold II's formal relinquishment of his personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.-Congo Free State, 1884–1908:Until the latter... (now in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
1938	Upper Steel Arch Bridge	Niagara Falls, New York, USA
1938	Liechtenstein-Haberfeld transmitter	Haberfeld, Liechtenstein
1939	Sandö Bridge	Kramfors, Ångermanland, Sweden
1939	Collapse of Utbremen Radio Tower	Bremen, Germany
1940	First Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the first incarnation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed...	Tacoma, Washington Tacoma, Washington Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
1940	Theodor Heuss Bridge Theodor Heuss Bridge (Frankenthal) The Theodor-Heuss-Rhine River Bridge also known as the Autobahnbrücke Frankenthal is a bridge that spans the Rhine River along Autobahn 6 and connects the regions of Rhineland-Palatinate with Baden-Wuerttemberg...	Ludwigshafen, Germany
1940	Collapse of Tower West of Fécamp Radio Normandie Transmitter	Fécamp, France
1942	Chesapeake City Bridge	Chesapeake, USA
1945	Ludendorff Bridge Ludendorff Bridge The Ludendorff Bridge was a railway bridge across the River Rhine in Germany, connecting the villages of Remagen and Erpel between two ridge lines of hills flanking the river...	Remagen, Germany
1949	2 masts of Langenberg transmitter Sender Langenberg The Langenberg transmission tower is a broadcasting station that transmits MW, FM and TV signals. It is located in Langenberg, Velbert, Germany and has had a very turbulent history since its inauguration...	Langenberg Langenberg Langenberg is a quarter in Velbert, a German city. Located in this district is the famous Sender Langenberg transmission site, which transmits MW, FM, and TV broadcasting signals.... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
1949	Schwerin-Möwenburgstrasse transmitter	Schwerin, Germany
1949	Inotani wire bridge	Toyama, Japan
1949	Collapse of Hamburg-Billstadt Radio Mast Transmitter Hamburg-Billstedt The Transmitter Hamburg-Billstedt is a broadcasting facility in Hamburg-Billstedt, established in 1934. It is owned and operated by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk public broadcasting service, but open to competitors, too....	Hamburg, Germany
1951	Duplessis bridge collapse	Quebec, Canada
1952	Footbridge at Harrow & Wealdstone station Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a major railway disaster and collision on the British railway system on 8 October 1952.The accident took place from central London...	Wealdstone, UK
1953	Tangiwai railway bridge Tangiwai	Tangiwai, New Zealand
1953	Augusta Radio Mast	Augusta, Michigan, USA
1957	Rail bridge near St Johns station Lewisham rail crash The Lewisham rail crash on the British railway system occurred on 4 December 1957 just outside St Johns railway station in Lewisham, south London...	London-Lewisham, UK
1958	Second Narrows Bridge	Vancouver, Canada
1958	Collapse of Ochsenkopf TV Mast Ochsenkopf TV Tower The Ochsenkopf Transmitter is a 163 metre tall radio and TV tower of reinforced concrete, which was built in 1958 as replacement for a 50 metre tall guyed steel tube TV mast, which collapsed in January 1958 as result of icing, on the summit of the 1024 metre high Ochsenkopf mountain, the second...	Ochsenkopf Ochsenkopf (Fichtelgebirge) The Ochsenkopf is the second-highest mountain in the Fichtelgebirge with a height of . On its summit is an observation tower and a transmission tower for VHF and TV programmes by Bayerischer Rundfunk.... , Germany
1959	Vega de Tera	Ribadelago, Spain
1959	Malpasset Malpasset Malpasset was an arch dam on the Reyran River, constructed approximately 7 km north of Fréjus on the Côte d'Azur, southern France, in the Var département. It collapsed on December 2, 1959, killing 421 people in the resulting flood. Various sources indicate death numbers of 361, 400, 423, 429 or 510...	Côte d'Azur, France
1960	KOBR-TV Tower KOBR-TV Tower KOBR-TV Tower is a 490.7 meter high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Caprock, New Mexico, USA. KOBR-TV Tower was built in 1960. The original KSWS-TV Tower was built in December 1956 and was the same height at 1610 ft...	Caprock, New Mexico, USA
1961	LORAN-C transmitter Carolina Beach LORAN-C transmitter Carolina Beach LORAN-C transmitter Carolina Beach is the Zulu secondary station of the U.S. Southeast chain with a transmission power of 800 kW....	Carolina Beach, USA
1962	LORAN-C transmitter Ejde LORAN-C transmitter Ejde LORAN-C transmitter Ejde is the Master station of the Ejde LORAN-C Chain .It uses a transmission power of 400 kW.Ejde LORAN-C transmitter, situated near Eiði at...	Ejde, Faroe Islands
1962	King Street Bridge (Melbourne) King Street Bridge (Melbourne) The King Street Bridge takes King Street over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge continues south as an elevated viaduct, with the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex built around it in later years.-History:...	Melbourne, Australia
1962	KGW Tower	Portland, Oregon, USA
1963	Baldwin Hills Reservoir Baldwin Hills Reservoir The Baldwin Hills Reservoir was a water storage basin located on a low hilltop in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. It was constructed between 1947 and 1951 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power directly on an active fault line which was subsidiary to the well known nearby...	Los Angeles, California, United States
1963	Vajont Dam Vajont Dam The Vajont Dam is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, 100 km north of Venice, Italy...	Vajont Dam Collapse, Italy
1964	Ichenhausen Church Tower Collapse	Ichenhausen, Germany	church
1964	General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge is located at the outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela. The bridge connects Maracaibo with much of the rest of the country...	Maracaibo, Venezuela
1965	SES8 Tower	Mount Burr, South Australia
1965	Iwo Jima LORAN-C Mast Collapse Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter was a LORAN-C transmitter at Iwo Jima, Japan of Grid 9970 at . Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter had a transmission power of 4000 kilowatts, which is more than the most powerful broadcasting stations....	Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Iwo Jima, officially , is an island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain, which lie south of the Ogasawara Islands and together with them form the Ogasawara Archipelago. The island is located south of mainland Tokyo and administered as part of Ogasawara, one of eight villages of Tokyo...
1966	Heron Road Bridge Heron Road Bridge The Heron Road Bridge is a bridge in Ottawa Canada. It connects Baseline Road and Heron Road passing over both the Rideau River and the Rideau Canal just south of Carleton University. The bridge was built in 1966, and its construction saw one of the worst accidents in Ottawa history...	Ottawa, Canada
1966	Heiligenstedten Bascule Bridge	Heiligenstedten, Germany
1966	WLBT TV Tower	Raymond, Mississippi, USA
1967	Queen Juliana Bridge Queen Juliana Bridge Queen Juliana Bridge is a four lane road bridge across St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao. The bridge is named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands...	Willemstad, Curacao
1967	WNBC/WCBS-Tower	High Island, New York, USA
1967	Waltham mast	Waltham, UK
1967	Silver Bridge Silver Bridge The Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967, killing 46 people. The terms Silver Bridge or Silverbridge may also refer to:* Silver Memorial Bridge, the replacement for the above bridge, opened in 1969....	Point Pleasant, West Virginia Point Pleasant, West Virginia Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census...
1968	KXJB-TV mast collapse KXJB-TV mast The KXJB-TV mast is a television transmitting tower in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. At 2060 ft , it is the fourth-tallest artificial structure in the world, shorter by 3 ft than the KVLY-TV mast which stands a few miles away.Located 3.5 miles northeast of Galesburg,...	Traill County, North Dakota Traill County, North Dakota Traill County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The 2010 census listed the population at 8,121. Its county seat is Hillsboro, and its largest city is Mayville.-History:... , USA
1968	Ronan Point Ronan Point Ronan Point was a 22-story tower block in Newham, east London, which suffered a partial collapse when a gas explosion demolished a load-bearing wall, causing the collapse of one entire corner of the building... collapse	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... , UK
1968	KELO TV Tower	Rowena, South Dakota, USA
1968	WAEO Tower	Starks, Wisconsin, USA	Guyed Mast
1969	FM-/TV-Mast of Marnach transmitter Marnach transmitter Marnach transmitter is a broadcasting facility of RTL near Marnach in the commune of Munshausen, in northern Luxembourg. The Marnach transmitter was built in 1955 for improving the transmission of the English-speaking program on 1439 kHz , which was transmitted from 1951 with an...	Marnach, Luxembourg	Guyed Mast
1969	Emley Moor TV Mast Collapse Emley Moor transmitting station The Emley Moor transmitting station is a telecommunications and broadcasting facility on 'Emley Moor' to the west of the village of Emley, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England . The station's most visible feature is its concrete tower, which is a Grade II listed building...	Emley Emley Emley can refer to one of two small British villages:Emley, West Yorkshire, the location of the famous Emley Moor transmission towerEmley, Surrey, also known as Bowlhead Green, close to the village of Thursley... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...	Guyed Mast
1970	Orlunda transmitter, central radio mast collapse	Orlunda, Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Guyed Mast
1970	West Gate Bridge	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	Bridge
1970	Britannia Bridge Britannia Bridge Britannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. It was originally designed and built by Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic...	Menai Strait, Wales, UK	Bridge
1970	Cleddau Bridge Cleddau Bridge The Cleddau Bridge is a toll bridge on the A477 road that spans the River Cleddau between Neyland and Pembroke Dock, Wales. It was originally called the Milford Haven Bridge, Due to errors in the box girder design it collapsed during construction in 1970 and did not become operational until...	Pembroke Dock and Neyland, Wales, UK	Bridge
1971	KOIN-TV Transmitter Towers	Portland, Oregon, USA	Guyed Mast
1971	South Bridge Koblenz	Koblenz, Germany	Bridge under construction
1972	Buffalo Creek Flood Buffalo Creek Flood The Buffalo Creek Flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, USA, burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector.The resulting...	West Virginia, United States
1972	Central Tower Collapse Central tower (Königs Wusterhausen) Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower was a , free standing steel framework tower on the Funkerberg of Königs Wusterhausen, Germany. The tower, with its unique triangular cross section, was built from 1924 to 1925 and was to have a 40-meter high shortwave aerial on top which would have brought it to a...	Königs Wusterhausen Königs Wusterhausen Königs Wusterhausen is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district of the state of Brandenburg in Germany.-Geographical location:Königs Wusterhausen – or "KW" as it is often called locally – lies on the Notte Canal and the river Dahme southeast of Berlin... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Lattice tower
1972	Sidney Lanier Bridge Sidney Lanier Bridge The Sidney Lanier Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia, carrying four lanes of U.S. Route 17. The current bridge was built as a replacement to the original lift bridge which was twice struck by ships. It is currently the longest spanning bridge in...	Brunswick, Georgia, USA
1973	Bithlo TV Mast Collapse	Bithlo, Florida, USA
1973	Broadway Central Hotel, Mercer Arts Center Mercer Arts Center The Mercer Arts Center was a group of live theaters on Mercer Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, and was part of the Broadway Central Hotel until its collapse on August 3, 1973....	New York, NY, USA	Hotel and theaters
1974	Makahali River bridge	Baitadi, Nepal
1975	Tasman Bridge Tasman Bridge The Tasman Bridge is a five-lane bridge crossing the Derwent River, near the CBD of Hobart, Tasmania. The bridge has a total length of 1,395 metres . It provides the main traffic route from the CBD to the eastern shore - particularly Hobart International Airport and Bellerive Oval...	Hobart, Australia
1975	Banqiao Dam Banqiao Dam The Banqiao Reservoir Dam is a dam on the River Ru in Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan province, China. It infamously failed in 1975, causing more casualties than any other dam failure in history, and was subsequently rebuilt.... collapse	China	Dam
1975	KELO TV Tower	Rowena, South Dakota, USA	Guyed Mast
1975	Banqiao Banqiao Dam The Banqiao Reservoir Dam is a dam on the River Ru in Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan province, China. It infamously failed in 1975, causing more casualties than any other dam failure in history, and was subsequently rebuilt.... and Shimantan Dams	China	Dam
1976	Teton Dam Teton Dam The Teton Dam was a federally built earthen dam on the Teton River in southeastern Idaho, set between Fremont and Madison counties, USA, which when filling for the first time suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976. The collapse of the dam resulted in the deaths of 11 peopleand 13,000 head...	Idaho, United States	Mud dam
1976	SL-3 Radio Mast collapse Burg AM transmitter The AM transmitter in Burg, near Magdeburg, Germany, is a huge facility for longwave and mediumwave broadcasting. Its most dominant constructions are a 324 metre guyed radio mast and two 210 metre guyed steel tube masts....	Burg Burg bei Magdeburg Burg bei Magdeburg is a town of about 24,700 inhabitants on the Elbe-Havel-Canal in Germany, northeast of Magdeburg. It is situated around a former weir, the Sachsenschleusen... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Guyed Mast
1976	Reichsbrücke Reichsbrücke The Reichsbrücke is Vienna's most famous bridge, linking Mexicoplatz in Leopoldstadt with the Donauinsel in Donaustadt on the other side of the Danube. It lies on an important axis leading from the city centre at Stephansplatz, through Praterstern, and on to Kagran in the north-east...	Vienna, Austria	Bridge
1976	Pic de Nore transmitter Pic de Nore transmitter Pic de Nore transmitter is a facility for FM/TV transmission situated on the mountain of same name at 43°25'29"N 2°27'47"E. It uses a 102 metres tall concrete tower. This tower replaces the old tower, which was situated on the roof of the transmitter building and whose pinnacle was torn down by a...	Pic de Nore, France	Guyed Mast
1977	Granville Railway Bridge	Sydney, Australia
1977	KSLA-TV Tower	Mooringsport, Louisiana, USA	Guyed Mast
1977	Kelly Barnes Dam Kelly Barnes Dam Kelly Barnes Dam was an earthen embankment dam once located in Stephens County, Georgia, just outside of the city of Toccoa. It collapsed on November 6, 1977 after a period of heavy rainfall, and the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused $2.8 million in damages...	Georgia, USA	Dam
1978	Nebraska Education Tower Angora	Angora, Nebraska, USA	Guyed Mast
1978	WJJY TV Mast	Bluffs, IL USA	Guyed Mast
1978	WAND-TV Tower	Decatur, Illinois, USA	Guyed Mast
1978	CKVR Television Tower	Barrie, Ontario, Canada	Guyed Mast
1978	Hartford Civic Center Hartford Civic Center The XL Center, formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center, is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, USA. It is owned by the City of Hartford and operated by Anschutz Entertainment Group under contract with the Connecticut Development Authority...	Hartford, Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making... , usa
1978	Zehlendorf Radio Mast Collapse Sender Zehlendorf Sender Zehlendorf is a radio transmission facility that has existed since 1936, when a short wave transmitter was built in Zehlendorf as part of the establishment of permanent radio services...	Zehlendorf Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg Zehlendorf is a village belonging to the city Oranienburg in Brandenburg. It was incorporated into Oranienburg on 26 October 2003.The town is home to the Sender Zehlendorf, a transmission site for long wave and medium wave radio.-History:... , Germany	Guyed Mast
1978	Willow Island Cooling Tower Willow Island disaster The Willow Island disaster was the collapse of a cooling tower under construction at a power station at Willow Island, West Virginia, on Thursday April 27, 1978. The falling concrete caused the scaffolding to collapse...	Willow Island, West Virginia, USA	Cooling tower under construction
1979	Kemper Arena Kemper Arena Kemper Arena is a 19,500 seat indoor arena, in Kansas City, Missouri.It is named for R. Crosby Kemper Sr., a member of the powerful Kemper financial clan and who donated $3.2 million, from his estate for the arena...	Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties... , USA	Stadium
1979	Vysílač Krašov	Bezvěrov, Czechoslovakia	Guyed Mast
1979	Blåbärskullen transmitter Blåbärskullen transmitter Blåbärskullen transmitter is a facility for FM/TV-broadcasting at Sunne in Sweden, which went in service on September 2, 1960. It used as antenna tower a tall guyed mast, which was at time of completion one of the tallest structures in Sweden...	Sunne, Sweden	Pinnacle of guyed Mast
1980	Corralejas stadium collapse	Sincelejo Sincelejo Sincelejo is the capital and the largest city in the Colombian department of Sucre. It is also the main city in the denominated Región Sabanas , a subdivision of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, and the 23rd biggest city by population in Colombia... , Sucre, Colombia	Stadium
1980	Tjörnbron	Stenungsund, Sweden	Bridge
1980	Sunshine Skyway Bridge Sunshine Skyway Bridge The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a bridge spanning Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cable-stayed main span, and a total length of 21,877 feet . It is part of I-275 and US 19 , connecting St. Petersburg in Pinellas County and Terra Ceia in Manatee County, Florida, passing through Hillsborough...	Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA	Bridge
1980	Hayakawa wire bridge	Saito, Kyūshū, Japan	Suspension bridge
1980	LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen	Jan Mayen, Norway	Guyed Mast
1981	Hyatt Regency walkway collapse Hyatt Regency walkway collapse The Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse was a collapse of an interior suspended skywalk system that occurred on July 17, 1981, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others during a tea dance. At the time, it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S...	Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1981	Dudelange Radio Tower Collapse Dudelange Radio Tower The Dudelange Radio Tower is a 285-metre high freestanding steel framework FM radio and television transmission tower near Dudelange in Luxembourg. Dudelange Radio Tower was completed in 1957....	Dudelange Dudelange Dudelange is a commune with city status in southern Luxembourg. It is the fourth-most populous commune, with over 18,300 inhabitants. Dudelange is situated close to the border to France.... , Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...	Lattice tower
1982	Aviamotornaya Escalator Collapse	Moscow, Russia	Escalator
1982	Lawn Lake Dam Lawn Lake Dam Lawn Lake Dam was an earthen dam in Rocky Mountain National Park, United States that failed on July 15, 1982 at about 6 a.m. The sudden release of 220 million US gallons of water resulted in a flash flood that killed three people camping in the park and caused $31 million in damage to the town of...	Rocky Mountain National Park, United States	Dam
1982	Tous Dam	Valencia, Spain	Dam
1982	Senior Road Tower Collapse Senior Road Tower Senior Road Tower is a high guyed radio mast for FM and TV broadcasting in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County near Missouri City, Texas, USA, at . Senior Road Tower was built in 1983 as a replacement for a tower which collapsed in 1982...	Missouri City, Texas Missouri City, Texas Missouri City is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County with a small portion within Harris County. As of the 2000 U.S... , USA	Guyed Mast
1982	WCIQ Tower	Mount Cheaha, Alabama, USA	Guyed Mast
1983	Mianus River Bridge Mianus River Bridge The Mianus River Bridge carries Interstate 95 over the Mianus River in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut. The bridge suffered a 1983 collapse, killing several motorists. The replacement span is officially named the Michael L...	Greenwich, Connecticut, USA	Bridge
1983	Wavre TV Mast	Wavre, Belgium	Guyed Mast
1983	KWWL-TV Mast	Rowley, Iowa, USA	Guyed Mast
1985	Val di Stava Dam collapse Val di Stava Dam Collapse The Val di Stava Dam collapse occurred on 19 July 1985, when two tailings dams above the village of Stava, near Tesero, Northern Italy, failed. It resulted in one of Italy's worst disasters, killing 268 people, destroying 63 buildings and demolishing eight bridges.The upper dam broke first, leading...	Italy	Dam
1985	Bielstein TV Mast Collapse Sender Bielstein The Sender Bielstein is an FM- and TV-broadcasting facility on the 393 metre high Bielstein mountain in the Forest of Teutoburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Bielstein transmitter, which is property of WDR and used for transmitting its programmes was established in 1951. It used until 1954 a...	Bielstein, Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Guyed Mast
1986	Hotel New World Disaster Hotel New World disaster The Hotel New World emergency occurred on 15 March 1986, and was Singapore's deadliest civil disaster since the Spyros disaster of 12 October 1978. The six-story building situated at the junction of Serangoon Road and Owen Road rapidly collapsed, trapping 50 people beneath the rubble...	Little India Little India, Singapore Little India is an ethnic neighbourhood found in Singapore that has Tamil cultural elements. Little India lies to east of the Singapore River—across from Chinatown, located west of the river—and north of Kampong Glam. Both areas are part of the urban planning area of Rochor... near Serangoon Road Serangoon Road Serangoon Road is a road from Little India to Boon Keng of Singapore . There is another road, from Woodsville Interchange to Sengkang called Upper Serangoon Road.Another way is via Jalan Besar and Bendemeer Road.... , Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...	Hotel
1987	L'Ambiance Plaza L'Ambiance Plaza The L'Ambiance Plaza collapse was one of the worst disasters in modern Connecticut history. L'Ambiance Plaza was a 16-story residential project under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut at the corner of Washington Avenue and Coleman Street. Its partially erect frame completely collapsed on... collapse	Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...
1987	Schoharie Creek Bridge collapse Schoharie Creek Bridge collapse The Schoharie Creek Bridge was a New York State Thruway bridge over the Schoharie Creek near Fort Hunter, in New York State. On April 5, 1987 it collapsed due to erosion at the foundations after a record rainfall...	Fort Hunter, New York, USA	Bridge
1988	Aschaffenburg Main River Freeway Bridge	Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany	Bridge under construction
1988	Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge	Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia	stadium
1989	Tennessee Hatchie River Bridge	Tennessee, USA
1989	WRAL-TV & WPTF-TV towers	Auburn, North Carolina, USA	Guyed Mast
1989	Cypress Street Viaduct Cypress Street Viaduct The Cypress Street Viaduct, often referred to as the Cypress Structure, was a 1.6 mile long, raised two-tier, multi-lane freeway constructed of reinforced concrete that was originally part of the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, California.It replaced an earlier single-deck viaduct constructed in the...	Oakland, California Oakland, California Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724... , USA	Bridge
1991	Astram Line Astram Line The is a new transit system operated by Hiroshima Rapid Transit in Hiroshima, Japan.-History:*August 8, 1994 - Opened for the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima... steel bridge	Hiroshima Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M... , Japan	Bridge
1991-08-08	Warsaw Radio Mast collapse Warsaw radio mast The Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It is the second tallest land-based structure ever built, being surpassed as tallest by the Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010....	Gabin Gabin Gąbin is a small town in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,230 inhabitants . It is an ancient town, having been founded in the 13th century.-Current events:... , Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	guyed mast ( 646 m)
1992	Armand Césari Stadium disaster Armand Césari Stadium disaster The Armand Césari Stadium disaster happened at Bastia on the French island of Corsica at the Stade Armand Cesari, on 5 May 1992. 18 people were killed when one of the terraces collapsed....	Bastia, France	Stadium
1992	WCIX TV Tower	Homestead (Miami), Florida, USA
1993	Claiborne Avenue Bridge Claiborne Avenue Bridge The Claiborne Avenue Bridge, officially known as the Judge William Seeber Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana over the Industrial Canal. It was built by the Louisiana Department of Highways and opened to vehicular traffic in 1957...	New Orleans, USA
1993	LORAN-C transmitter Kargaburan	Kargaburan, Turkey
1993	CSXT Big Bayou Canot rail bridge	Mobile, Alabama, USA
1993	Cape Race LORAN-C Mast Collapse Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter The Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter is a LORAN-C transmitter at Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada.The Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter was used as an antenna tower until February 2, 1993. It was a 411.48 m tall guyed mast, built in 1965...	Cape Race Cape Race Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, "Raso", or "bare"... , Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
1993	Highland Towers collapse Highland Towers collapse The Highland Towers collapse was an apartment building collapse that occurred on 11 December 1993 in Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor, Malaysia...	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million... , Malaysia
1994	Seongsu Bridge Seongsu Bridge The Seongsu Bridge is a bridge over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. The bridge links the Seongdong and Gangnam districts. The cantilever bridge was completed in 1979 and its total length is 1160 m. It became infamous when it collapsed on October 21, 1994....	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
1995	Cave Creek disaster Cave Creek disaster The Cave Creek disaster was an event in which 14 people died when a scenic viewing platform collapsed. It occurred in Paparoa National Park on New Zealand's West Coast, on 28 April 1995. The tragedy resulted in wide criticism of the government and its policies towards funding and management of...	Paparoa National Park Paparoa National Park Paparoa National Park is on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand.It was established in 1987 and encompasses 306 km². The park ranges from on or near the coastline to the peak of the Paparoa Ranges. A separate section of the park is to the north and is centered at Ananui Creek.The... , New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
1995	Sampoong Department Store collapse Sampoong Department Store collapse The Sampoong Department Store collapse was a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995 in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea...	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
1996	WCOV-TV Tower	Montgomery, USA
1996	Baikong Railway bridge	Ruyuan, Guangdong, China
1996	Koror-Babeldaob Bridge	Koror and Babeldaob, Palau
1996	Walnut Street Bridge collapse	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania... , USA
1997	Opuha Dam Opuha Dam The Opuha Dam is located on the Opuha River, a tributary of the Opihi River in South Canterbury, New Zealand. The dam is used for water storage for farming irrigation and provides 7.7 MW of electricity to New Zealand's national grid....	New Zealand
1997	2 masts of Grigoriopol transmitter	Grigoriopol, Moldova
1997	Maccabiah bridge collapse	Tel Aviv, Israel
1997	KNOE-TV Tower	Louisiana, USA
1997	KXJB-TV mast collapse KXJB-TV mast The KXJB-TV mast is a television transmitting tower in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. At 2060 ft , it is the fourth-tallest artificial structure in the world, shorter by 3 ft than the KVLY-TV mast which stands a few miles away.Located 3.5 miles northeast of Galesburg,...	Traill County, North Dakota Traill County, North Dakota Traill County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The 2010 census listed the population at 8,121. Its county seat is Hillsboro, and its largest city is Mayville.-History:... , USA
1997	WLBT Tower collapse WLBT Tower The WLBT Tower was a 610 meter high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and TV-programs from Raymond, Mississippi, USA for the Jackson metro area. The mast, constructed in 1966, was located at ....	Raymond, Mississippi Raymond, Mississippi Raymond is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,664. Raymond is one of the two county seats of Hinds County and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College.... , USA
1997	Knick-Ei Knick-Ei Knick-Ei was the nickname of a sports hall located at the corner of Feldstraße and Bahnhofstraße in the city of Halstenbek, located in Pinneberg county in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The nickname refers to the hall's dome-shaped roof which collapsed twice during construction...	Halstenbek Halstenbek Halstenbek is a free municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the north-western border of the city of Hamburg and approximately 5 km southeast of Pinneberg.- Geography :... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
1998	Knick-Ei Knick-Ei Knick-Ei was the nickname of a sports hall located at the corner of Feldstraße and Bahnhofstraße in the city of Halstenbek, located in Pinneberg county in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The nickname refers to the hall's dome-shaped roof which collapsed twice during construction...	Halstenbek Halstenbek Halstenbek is a free municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the north-western border of the city of Hamburg and approximately 5 km southeast of Pinneberg.- Geography :... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
1999	Gdynia Shipyard Crane Crash	Gdynia Gdynia Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together... , Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
2000	Pier Number 34 (Club Heat) Philadelphia Pier 34 Collapse The Philadelphia Pier 34 collapse occurred on May 18th, 2000 and caused the death of three women inside Club Heat and injuries to dozens of people, as the 91-year-old structure fell into the Delaware River....	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... , USA
2000	Highway 15 Overpass Collapse	Montréal, Québec, Canada
2000	WRMD-Tower	St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
2000	KXEO/KWWR-Tower	Mexico, MO, USA
2000	Hoan Bridge Hoan Bridge The Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is a tied arch bridge that connects Interstate 794 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Lake Freeway across the Milwaukee River inlet...	Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is... , USA
2001	Hintze Ribeiro bridge	Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal
2001	Asagiri footbridge	Akashi, Japan
2001	Queen Isabella Causeway	Port Isabel, Texas, USA
2001	Angara transmitter, Northern Mast	Angara, Russia
2001	Krasny Bor transmitter	Krasny Bor, Russia
2001	Kadalundi River rail bridge	India
2001	Versailles wedding hall collapse	Jerusalem, Israel
2001	Collapse of the World Trade Center Collapse of the World Trade Center The twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, as a result of al-Qaeda's September 11 attacks, in which terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, flying one into the North Tower and another into the South Tower...	New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... , USA
2002	Vodní nádrž Soběnov	Soběnov, Czech Republic
2002	Ellenstedt Wind Turbine Collapse http://mitglied.multimania.de/WilfriedHeck/ellenst.htm	Ellenstedt, Germany
2002	Buran Hangar Collapse	Baikonur Baikonur Baikonur , formerly known as Leninsk, is a city in Kyzylorda Province of Kazakhstan, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995.The shape of the... , Kazakhstan/Russia
2002	I-40 bridge disaster	Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, USA
2002	Rafiganj rail bridge	India
2002	Interstate 95 Howard Avenue Overpass	Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
2003	WVAH Tower	West Virginia, USA
2003	WPAY (AM)-Tower	Portsmouth, Ohio, USA
2003	WTNV-FM Tower	Jackson, Tennessee, USA
2003	WMBD Tower	Peoria, Illinois, USA
2003	WIFR TV tower
2003	KETV TV Tower	Omaha Omaha Omaha may refer to:Omaha , a Native American tribe that currently resides in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska-Places:United States Omaha, Nebraska* Omaha, Arkansas* Omaha, Georgia* Omaha, Illinois* Omaha, Texas... , USA
2003	WAAY-TV - TV Mast	Huntsville, Alabama, USA
2003	Utrecht radio mast collapse	Utrecht, Netherlands
2003	Kinzua Bridge Kinzua Bridge The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania...	Kinzua Bridge State Park, USA
2003	Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial Bridge	Latchford, Ontario, Canada
2003	2003 Chicago balcony collapse 2003 Chicago balcony collapse The 2003 Chicago balcony collapse was a disaster that occurred on June 29, 2003 in the city of Chicago, resulting in the deadliest porch collapse in United States history. An overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in an apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring...	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
2003	Schneebergerhof Vestas V80 Wind Turbine collapse	Gerbach, Germany
2004	Big Bay Dam Big Bay Dam Big Bay Dam was an earthen dam located 11 miles west of Purvis, Mississippi in Lamar County. On March 12, 2004 the Big Bay dam embankment failed though piping in the vicinity of the principal spillway 12 years after construction. A peak breach flow of 147,000 ft3/s was estimated from the...	Mississippi, United States
2004	Camará Dam Camará Dam The Camará Dam was a dam located on the Mamanguape River in Paraiba, northeastern Brazil. It burst on June 17, 2004, flooding towns of Alagoa Grande and Mulungu. At least three people died by drowning.- References :...	Brazil
2004	Collapse of the Terminal 2E roof, Charles de Gaulle Airport	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
2004	Loncomilla Bridge	San Javier, Chile
2004	Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge The Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge carries the limited-access Connecticut Route 15 over the Housatonic River, between Stratford and Milford, Connecticut. The bridge was first referred to as the Sikorsky Bridge because Sikorsky Aircraft is headquartered just north of the bridge...	Connecticut, USA
2004	Big Nickel Road Bridge	Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
2004	Mungo Bridge	Cameroon
2004	Peterborough radio mast Peterborough Transmitter The Peterborough transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility at Morborne Hill, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, ....	Peterborough, Great Britain
2004	KFI Mast	Los Angeles, USA
2005	Shakidor Dam Shakidor Dam Shakidor Dam was a small dam located near Pasni in Balochistan province of Pakistan. The dam is 485 metres long. It was constructed in 2003 at a cost of 45 million Pakistani Rupees to provide irrigation for nearby farms....	Pakistan
2005	Taum Sauk Reservoir	Lesterville, Missouri, United States
2005	Almuñécar Motorway bridge	Almuñécar, Province of Granada, Spain
2005	Caracas-La Guaira highway, Viaduct #1	Tacagua, Venezuela
2005	Veligonda Railway Bridge	India
2005	WLGA Transmitter Tower (formerly WSWS-TV Transmitter Tower)	Cusseta, Georgia, USA
2005	Nebraska Education Tower Atlanta	Atlanta, Nebraska, USA
2006-03-22	2006 Lagos building collapses 2006 Lagos building collapses Due to generally poor construction standards in Lagos, Nigeria building collapses are a fairly common occurrence. In 2006, up to 3 building collapses were reported.-March:...	Lagos, Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
2006	De la Concorde Overpass collapse De la Concorde overpass collapse On September 30, 2006, part of an overpass collapsed in Laval, a suburb of Montreal, on Boulevard de la Concorde running over Autoroute 19. The collapse crushed two vehicles under it, killing five people and seriously injuring six others who went over the edge while travelling on the overpass...	Montréal, Québec
2006	Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse At approximately 15:00 UTC on Monday 2 January 2006, in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border, the roof of a 1970s-built ice rink collapsed, possibly under the weight of heavy snowfall, trapping 50 people underneath the rubble....	Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps .... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
2006	Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse On 28 January 2006, the roof of one of the buildings at Katowice International Fair collapsed in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland....	Katowice Katowice Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2... , Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
2006	Run Pathani Bridge Collapse	Pakistan
2006	Torre VIP de Rádio & TV	São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
2006	Yekaterinburg bridge collapse	Yekaterinburg, Russia
2006	Nimule bridge collapse	Nimule, Kenya
2006	Bhagalpur Pedestrian Bridge Collapse	Bhagalpur, India
2006	Eziama Bridge Collapse	Eziama, Nigeria
2007	Foshan bridge disaster	Foshan Foshan Foshan is a city in central Guangdong province in southern China. The prefectural area under the city's jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper .... , China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
2007	Crab House - Floor collapsed into the water injuring nine	Wildwood Crest, New Jersey Wildwood Crest, New Jersey Wildwood Crest is a borough in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 United States Census, the borough population was 3,980.... , USA
2007	Sherman County Wind Turbine collapse http://www.nowpublic.com/wind-turbine-collapse-kills-one-injures-second-worker-0, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5324308	Sherman County, Oregon, USA
2007	WACS-TV tower	Americus, Georgia, USA
2007	WSKY-DT Tower	Camden County, NC, USA
2007	Browns Summit Crown Castle Broadcasting Tower	Browns Summit, Texas, USA
2007	Punjagutta Flyover Bridge Collapse	Punjagutta, India
2007	Tuo River bridge	Fenguan, China
2007	Harp Road bridge	Oakville, Washington, USA
2007	MacArthur Maze	Oakland, California, USA
2007	Shershah Bridge - Section of the Northern Bypass, Karachi	Karachi, Pakistan
2007	Can Tho Bridge	Can Tho, Vitnam
2007	Neurath Power Station Neurath Power Station Neurath Power Station is a lignite-fired power station at Neurath in Grevenbroich, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the south from Grevenbroich center and it borders municipalities of Rommerskirchen and Bedburg. The power station consists of five units and it is owned by RWE. In... Scaffold collapse	Grevenbroich-Neurath, Germany	power station under construction
2007	Guinea Bridge Collapse	Guinea
2007	Chhinchu suspension bridge	Nepalgunj, Birendranagar, Nepal
2007	WNEP-TV Tower	Penobscot Knob Penobscot Knob Penobscot Knob, also Penobscot Mountain, is a hill located near Mountain Top, Pennsylvania and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that is best known as the site of many local television and radio station transmitters... , Mountaintop, PA, USA
2007	I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States... , USA
2007	Collapse of bridge over the Jiantuo River during construction	Hunan Hunan ' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
2008	Hornslet Wind Turbine Collapse Hornslet Wind Turbine Collapse The Hornslet Wind Turbine Collapse was a spectacular collapse of a wind turbine, which took place on February 22, 2008. It is one of only a few structural collapses that have been captured on film.-Description of Wind Turbine:...	Hornslet Hornslet Hornslet is a town located in East Jutland, on the westernmost Djursland, Denmark. It is a Commuter town of the city of Aarhus, which lies approximately 25 kilometers to the southwest, and a railway town at Grenaabanen, the railroad between the cities of Aarhus and Grenaa... , Denmark	Wind turbine
2007	Collapse of Cần Thơ Bridge Collapse of Can Tho Bridge The collapse of Cần Thơ Bridge was a severe construction accident in southern Vietnam. The accident occurred at 8 am local time on the morning of September 26, 2007, when a 90 metre section of an approach ramp, which was over 30 metres above the ground, collapsed. There were 250 engineers and...	Tây Nam Bộ, Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
2008	Cedar Rapids Railway Bridge Collapse	Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
2007	Stobart Mill Wind Turbine Collapse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/7168275.stml	Stobart Mill, UK
2008	KATV Tower KATV Tower The KATV tower was a 2000 ft tall television mast built near Redfield, Arkansas in 1965 at . Its Federal Communications Commission registration and other sources claim that it was built in 1967, but they are incorrect; the Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Redfield also has an incorrect...	Redfield, Arkansas, USA
2008	Searsburg Wind Turbine Collapse http://www.windaction.org/releases/18394	Searsburg, New Hampshire, USA
2009	Emmis Television Wichita Tower	Wichita, USA
2009	Alona Wind Turbine Collapse http://www.windbyte.co.uk/safety.html	Alona, New York, USA
2009	Fenner wind turbine collapse http://www.windaction.org/pictures/24818	Fenner, New York, USA
2009	Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapse	Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
2009	Situ Gintung Dam	Tangerang, Indonesia
2009	Collapse of the Block 7 of Lotus Riverside Lotus Riverside Lotus Riverside is a residential apartment complex located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.-Events:On June 27, 2009 at 5:30am local time, Block 7, one of the eleven 13-storey buildings of the apartment complex, collapsed killing one worker....	Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
2009	Broadmeadow viaduct Broadmeadow viaduct The Broadmeadow viaduct, in Ireland, carries the main Dublin to Belfast railway across the Broadmeadow Estuary, about 13 kilometres north of Dublin, just north of Malahide. It is approximately 180 metres long and it is a section of a longer crossing constructed as an embankment...	Malahide, Ireland
2009	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium is a new multi-purpose stadium in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, which was constructed by South Korean construction firm. It was used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 50,000 people. It is the biggest stadium in the East Coast region of Peninsular...	Terengganu, Malaysia
2009	2009 Korba chimney collapse 2009 Korba chimney collapse The 2009 Korba chimney collapse occurred in the town of Korba in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 23 September 2009. It was under construction by Gannon Dunkerley & Company Limited for Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation , who themselves were under contract for the Bharat Aluminium...	Korba Korba, Chhattisgarh Korba is a city and an industrial area in Korba District in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.Korba is the power capital of the newly formed state Chhattisgarh. The district comes under Bilaspur division and is inhabited mainly by tribals including the protected tribe Korwas... , India
2009	Palma de Mallorca House Collapse	Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2009	Jaya Supermarket Jaya Supermarket Jaya Shopping Centre, better known as Jaya Supermarket, is a well-known landmark in Section 14, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Built in 1974, it was one of the first supermarkets in Petaling Jaya and has survived the many facets of development until now.It was one of the few lifestyle centres...	Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya is a Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur comprising mostly residential and some industrial areas. It is located in the Petaling district of Selangor with an area of approximately 97.2 km². On 20 June 2006, Petaling Jaya was granted a... , Malaysia
2009	Kota Chambal Bridge Collapse	Kota, India
2010	Bab Berdieyinne mosque minaret collapse	Meknes, Morocco
2010	Myllysilta Myllysilta The Myllysilta is a steel girder bridge crossing the Aurajoki in the middle of the city of Turku in Finland. The bridqe was opened in Septemner 19, 2011... (Mill Bridge)	Turku Turku Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland... , Finland
2010	Lalita Park building collapse Lalita Park building collapse The Lalita Park building collapse occurred at 8:15 p.m. local time on 15 November 2010 in the Indian capital of New Delhi. The 15-year-old building was in the Lalita Park neighborhood, near Lakshmi Nagar in East Delhi close to the Yamuna River...	New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
2010	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, commonly called the Metrodome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1982, it replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington and Memorial Stadium on the University... roof collapse	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
2011	Hefbrug Waddinxveen	Waddinxveen, Netherlands
2011	WEAU-TV, WAAX-FM Tower	Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA	Guyed mast
2011	Kirtorf Wind Turbine collapse http://nachrichten.t-online.de/hessen-spitze-von-windkraftanlage-abgebrochen/id_47307236/index	Kirtorf Kirtorf Kirtorf is a town in the northern Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany. Through the town runs the Deutsche Märchenstraße, or German Fairytale Road, a touristic route joining many of the places commonly associated with the Brothers Grimm's tales.-Geography:... , Germany	Wind turbine
2011	Enschede Stadium Roof Collapse	Enschede, Netherlands	Stadium roof
2011	Antenna mast of tower of Zendstation Smilde Zendstation Smilde Zendstation Smilde is a tall, guyed structure similar to the Gerbrandy Tower, built in Hoogersmilde, the Netherlands in 1959 for directional radio services and TV and FM-transmissions. It consists of an 80 metre high reinforced concrete tower and had until a fire accident on July 15, 2011, a guyed...	Hoogersmilde, Netherlands	Partially guyed tower
2011	Indiana State Fair Indiana State Fair The Indiana State Fair is an annual fair held in Indianapolis, Indiana, usually in the month of August. The first fair was held in 1881 and the 2009 fair had the highest number of attendees at 973,902.... stage collapse	Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...	Stage
2011	QAL Qal Qal can refer to:* Gal, Azerbaijan* Qal , simple form of a Hebrew verb... scaffold collapse	Gladstone QLD Australia	scaffold

Vehicles

Year	Structure	Location
1865	Steamboat Sultana boiler explosion Sultana (steamboat) The SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler whose destruction in an explosion on April 27, 1865 was the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,800 of the Sultanas 2,400 passengers were killed when three of the ship's four boilers exploded and the...	Memphis, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.... , USA
1882	Inverythan rail accident Inverythan rail accident The Inverythan rail accident occurred when a faulty girder collapsed on a 39 ft by 15 ft single-track railway underbridge between Auchterless and Fyvie...	Inverness, UK
1884	Camberwell road accident	London, UK
1891	Norwood junction rail accident Norwood Junction rail accident The Norwood Junction railway crash occurred on 1 May 1891, when a cast iron under-bridge some 60 yards north east of Norwood Junction railway station fractured under an express train from Brighton to London in southern England....	London, UK
1891	Munchenstein rail disaster Munchenstein rail disaster The Munchenstein rail disaster on 14 June 1891 was historically the worst railway accident ever to affect Switzerland. A crowded passenger train fell through a girder bridge, killing over seventy people and injuring many more...	Munchenstein, Switzerland
1954	BOAC Flight 781 BOAC Flight 781 On 10 January 1954, British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 781 a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 registered G-ALYP, took off from Ciampino Airport in Rome, Italy, en route to Heathrow Airport in London, England, on the final leg of its flight from Singapore... , de Havilland Comet De Havilland Comet The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at the Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, it first flew in 1949 and was a landmark in aeronautical design...	Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant... off Elba Elba Elba is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino. The largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, Elba is also part of the National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago and the third largest island in Italy after Sicily and Sardinia...
1966	BOAC Flight 911 BOAC flight 911 BOAC Flight 911 was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation.On 5 March 1966, the Boeing 707-436 operating this flight was commanded by Captain Bernard Dobson, 45, from Dorset, an experienced 707 pilot who had been flying these aircraft since November 1960.The... , Boeing 707 Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is a four-engine narrow-body commercial passenger jet airliner developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Its name is most commonly pronounced as "Seven Oh Seven". The first airline to operate the 707 was Pan American World Airways, inaugurating the type's first commercial flight on...	Near Mount Fuji Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at . An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–08, Mount Fuji lies about south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
1970	Apollo 13 Apollo 13 Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command... , Apollo Service Module	Lunar transfer orbit Trans Lunar Injection A Trans Lunar Injection is a propulsive maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory which will arrive at the Moon.Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate Hohmann transfers, although low energy transfers have also been used in some cases, as with the Hiten probe... , about 321,860 km Earth altitude, in international territory Outer Space Treaty The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a treaty that forms the basis of international space law...
1985	Japan Airlines Flight 123 Japan Airlines Flight 123 Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport to Osaka International Airport on August 12, 1985. The Boeing 747-146SR that made this route, registered , suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into the flight and 32 minutes later crashed into two... , Boeing 747 Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first wide-body ever produced...	Mount Takamagahara Mount Takamagahara Mount Takamagahara is a mountain in the Gunma Prefecture of Japan, near Ueno village. Its measurement is tall.The crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 was initially reported on Mount Osutaka, but later confirmed to be on the ridge of Mount Takamagahara at a height of approximately above sea level... in Gunma Prefecture Gunma Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the northwest corner of the Kantō region on Honshu island. Its capital is Maebashi.- History :The remains of a Paleolithic man were found at Iwajuku, Gunma Prefecture, in the early 20th century and there is a public museum there.Japan was without horses until... , Japan
1986	Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Space Shuttle Challenger disaster The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida at 11:38 am EST...	Cape Canaveral, Florida Cape Canaveral, Florida Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,829 at the 2000 census. As of 2008, the estimated population according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 10,147... , USA
1996	TWA Flight 800 TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 , a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 persons on board. At the time, it was the second-deadliest U.S... , Boeing 747 Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first wide-body ever produced...	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area... near East Moriches, New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... , USA
2002	China Airlines Flight 611 China Airlines Flight 611 China Airlines Flight 611 was a regularly scheduled flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taoyuan to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong...	over the Penghu Islands, Taiwan
2003	Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Space Shuttle Columbia disaster The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in the death of all seven crew members...	over Texas Texas Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in... , USA

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