collapsed buildings
Fallen, ruined structures
Buildings that have fallen down or caved in, typically due to structural failure, earthquake, explosion, or demolition.
The phrase appears most often in disaster contexts: Rescue workers searched the collapsed buildings for survivors.
A single structure is a collapsed building; multiple structures are collapsed buildings.
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- rubble pileHeap of broken masonry
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
destruction · earthquake · natural disaster · demolition · crumbling · concrete · dust · ground zero · rescue · search and rescue · first responders · trapped · survivors · devastation · pile · crushed · structural · failure
- earthquake effectsearthquake, aftershock, aftershocks, tremor, tremors
- settlementsvillage, cities, hamlet, city, towns
- weather damagestorm damage, wind damage, hail damage, flood damage, tornado damage
collapse, collapsed, collapsing, collapses, collapsible, building, buildings, build, builds