The quake brought down walls made from stone and masonry not designed to withstand quakes, covering whole communities with rubble and leaving residents picking their way precariously through remains.

According to ASI officials, the double-storey mosque was built with thickly-plastered rubble stone, with the lower storey consisting only of a series of basement cells.

Unique masonry Ashlar is a finely dressed stone, which is given the shape of bricks and has smooth edges and parallel faces, in rubble masonry, random uncut stones are fixed with mortar ...

A new stone recycling business has opened in Georgetown, complete with its own set of train tracks. “We’re recycling blacktop and concrete rubble, crushing it to resell and saving it from ...