Moments later, part of a wall from the house collapsed and spilled rubble onto Mr. Ortega, killing him.
The part of the building's outer wall that collapsed spilled rubble into the pit, leaving a ragged hole that exposed pipes, wiring and some of the interior of an apartment: a closet, drinking glasses and an aquarium.
At one building site in Chittaranjan Park, an affluent south Delhi neighbourhood, half-covered piles of rubble spill out on to the pavement.
Traffic rarely plies roads that pass often spectacular destruction, rubble spilling into sun-drenched streets.
Rubble spills from many buildings along Highway 10, the main east-west artery that bisects the city.
Moments later, part of a wall from the home next door collapsed and sent rubble spilling onto Mr. Ortega, killing him.
Stuffed to the gills with drugs, Idol demolished furniture, reduced his TV to rubble and spilt all manner of liquids on the carpets.
Two brick buildings, standing moments earlier, were gone, collapsed into rubble that spilled across Park Avenue, subsuming parked cars in piles of brick and concrete.
Bubonic plague returned to San Francisco when the earthquake of 1906 sent hordes of rats racing through the rubble, chasing through the raw sewage spilling into the streets as the city's sewer pipes crumpled.
He has shot the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank as a wide panorama in which tiny figures crisscross a wasteland of rubble, beyond which a jumble of low-rise houses spill toward the horizon under puffy clouds.
