What happens if your house collapses?

If the floor collapsed because of shoddy materials or workmanship, you must pay to repair and replace it. Or, if the damage occurred because of an excluded peril (i.e., an earthquake or sinkhole), only earthquake or sinkhole insurance will cover it.

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What is the longest someone has survived in a collapsed building?

Park Sung-hyun, a 19-year-old salesclerk in South Korea, credited luck - and rainwater seeping through the ruins - for allowing her to survive 16 days in a collapsed shopping mall in 1995. Where is the safest place to be if a building collapses? When a building does collapse, the safest place to be is on the top floor, and the most dangerous is the ground level.

How long can you survive under a collapsed building?

It is difficult to say how long people can survive without hydration - some estimates suggest the average ranges between three and seven days. What is the weakest part of a building? The corners are the weakest portion of the structure due to the pillars on the margins, the V-shaped load distributors, and the light mass of the building. These factors work together to reduce the stress on each pillar. The foundation is the weak point in the building's structure because it does not carry any weight.

And another question, can building collapse suddenly?

"Buildings do not collapse suddenly," he stresses. "If there is no obvious external force, then [the cause is likely] a longterm deterioration process, usually manifested in forms of cracks and uneven settlement."