12 April 2012
So, can anyone explain this?
Posted by Dave Petley
This is quite extraordinary:
This still is captured from the video:
Update – it is the sructural failure of a residential building in Karaganda, Kyrgyzstan earlier this month. Details here.
Looks like it is this building that recently collapsed in Kazakhstan: http://en.tengrinews.kz/fotoarchive/237#31
The associated articles reference differential settling, cracks, and a corrupt construction company. It doesn’t appear to be landslide related.
Nothing in the article mentions it but the original town center was destroyed by coal-mining induced subsidence so I’d start there.