A landslide involves the collapse of a structure.
Collapse is the action and effect of collapsing . This verb indicates the action of precipitating, falling off a cliff, knocking down or demolishing , depending on the context. For example: "A landslide on the Mount of the Sacred Heart left three dead and dozens injured" , "The authorities announced that the investigation into the collapse of the restaurant will last several months" , "Oscar miraculously managed to escape the collapse: If he came out a few seconds later, he would be crushed to death .
Collapses can occur in different areas. In mountainous areas, landslides are common due to natural causes, when erosion or climatic conditions cause large rocks to fall from elevated surfaces to lower ones.
Landslides are also common in mining . The work in the mines, with explosions and tools that hit the rocks, causes stones to fall. One of the collapses that transcended the world was the one that occurred on August 5, 2010 in the San José de Copiapó mine ( Chile ), which left 33 miners trapped for seventy days.
The notion of collapse can also be used symbolically to name something that falls or collapses: "The collapse of the team occurred after Filibertti's injury," "For many people, such a tragedy would mean the collapse of the spirit: for me "It's just an obstacle to overcome."
Collapse of the Twin Towers
In cities, collapses are usually associated with construction failures or attacks (as happened with the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks).
Among the most important collapses in history, the last one mentioned stands out, that of the Twin Towers in New York , which took place on September 11, 2001 and was the result of a terrorist attack carried out by suicide bombers from the jihadist network. Al Qaeda .
What those individuals did was hijack several passenger planes and then crash them into the aforementioned buildings. The result of all this was the tragic death of more than three thousand people and injuries of varying severity to another six thousand.
An earthquake can cause landslides.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
However, if this event has been one of the most tragic in the recent history of the world, there is another that revolves around a collapse and is quite the opposite, one of the happiest and most hopeful of the 20th century . We are referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall , which took place on November 9, 1989 , after it had remained standing for almost three decades.
That was a wall, also called the wall of shame, that was built in the German capital to separate the area that was under the power of the Federal Republic of Germany from that under the rule of the German Democratic Republic. That is to say, what was intended was to prevent a massive emigration of citizens from the latter area to the former.
It was more than 110 kilometers long when it tried to be jumped unsuccessfully by a multitude of people who perished in that need to escape from the life they had.