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.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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.