The passage of time is one reason. Buildings also collapse due to weak foundations. Earthquakes, tropical cyclones, and other natural disasters can also damage the structure of the building and cause it to collapse. Bombings or demolition of buildings are also other reasons.
Buildings tend to be designed to support vertical loads such as their own self weight and their contents. They are also designed to resist lateral loads such as wind loading but this tends to be much smaller than the vertical loading.
Earthquakes cause much higher lateral loads as they cause the building to sway more than would normally be expected. If the earthquake is large enough and the lateral loads exceed the design strength of the building it can fail as the lateral loads generate shear stresses in the structure which if they reach a large enough value can cause shear or buckling failure in structural members or joints leading to collapse.
Also earthquakes can cause a process known as liquefaction to occur which causes the soil to lose its ability to support vertical loads (a loss of bearing capacity). This can cause subsidence of buildings which can contribute to instability, especially if it is differential subsidence (where one side of the building subsides more than the other).
There are plates underground. The plates get stressed which is when the rocks are trying to get back into form with the other rocks. They shift around. Upward shift, sideways shift. If a building is in the way of that shift then the building will collapse.
Weak foundation, controlled explosives, earthquake, and a lot of other factors can contribute.
seismic waves because seismic waves star out in the epicenter and then they go up and some reach Earth's surface making the ground shake and buildings to collapse.
Earthquakes and tsunamis
Falling and collapsing Buildings and other falling things
It will collapse .
Structure built to poor standards or no standards are likely to collapse during an earthquake, often killing or injuring people inside. Buildings constructed to modern codes, especially codes that consider earthquakes, are far less likely to collapse.
Well, not all don't collapse because some are strong enough to hold themselves during an earthquake.
The amount of tension to resist breaking during a earthquake is what causes buildings to collapse. Buildings need to have the amount of tension reduced by either reinforcing or having it work with the movement of the earthquake.
Building Collapse and falling objects
Falling and collapsing Buildings and other falling things
It will collapse .
the cause of structures to collapse during earthquakes are upheavals of tectonic plates..
there was one reason there were many different car accidents and ane accidents.
Structure built to poor standards or no standards are likely to collapse during an earthquake, often killing or injuring people inside. Buildings constructed to modern codes, especially codes that consider earthquakes, are far less likely to collapse.
Well, not all don't collapse because some are strong enough to hold themselves during an earthquake.
If indoors, move quickly to a door frame - it is among the stronger structures in a building, and thus more resistant to collapse.
Some soils under buildings become liquefied due to severe shaking. thats false
Sometimes, buildings weakened by an earthquake, then it would collapse during a aftershock.
A table is usually the most stable structure in a room. So if the building would perhaps collapse your chances of getting hurt are less
it will not break it will just stand because it is build to be strong.