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A recently opened 758-metre-long bridge in China's southwestern Sichuan province collapsed on Tuesday, with no casualties reported.

The Hongqi bridge, located on a national highway linking the country's heartland with Tibet, had only been completed earlier this year.

Safety concerns prompted the closure, as conditions on the mountainside worsened significantly by Tuesday afternoon.

Landslides triggered by the deteriorating conditions ultimately led to the collapse of the approach bridge and its roadbed.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 101 points 3 days ago (4 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZU6TU8nIQ8

Way easier to just watch a YT video than deal with their godawful website

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Of course there are people using their xenophobia (in the comments) to laugh at this, when a fucking landslide caused this. AFAIK , landslides weren't understood to be an issue in the area.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Presumably a massive construction near by could have contributed to destabilisation?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago

I mean presumably in the course of such a large project this was done.

Presumably, it would be better to wait for more detail before wildly speculating that this was incompetence.

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Naaaaaah. FAKE NEWS. Communist soil stands together against the tyrannies of giant concrete pilings.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I live in Florida, flattest state in the Union. We still have to have professional soil reports to build anything. The is 100% a construction failure.

They should have detected the likelihood of landslides, maybe dynamited the mountain to mitigate.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They suspect water seepage from a nearby reservoir is the culprit...

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And deep soil sampling should have caught that. I'm sure there are many methods I'm ignorant of that could have foreseen this.

Even America's crumbling infrastructure doesn't see monstrous failures like this. China: Is it Wednesday again?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

If you don’t think there are major American infrastructure failures, then it is simply your ignorance. The federal government thoroughly documents major structural failures and they never have a shortage of work.

A very approachable introduction to these disasters are the books and videos by Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering fame.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Thanks! It looks like the hillside was unstable and the source. Something the geological survey should’ve caught, I’d think. Though I am no bridgeologist.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good footage. AI slop commentary.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

At first I thought you were referring to the comments. But no, the voiceover itself is slop. Mildest of surprises.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

The unseen hero.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Junimos ain't fixin' that one, brother..

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Don't worry I already paid Robin!

[–] naught101@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago

The name of the bridge is pretty funny