Posted on 05/18/2021 1:13:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
One of China’s tallest skyscrapers was evacuated on Tuesday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety.
The near 300 metre (980ft) high SEG Plaza in Shenzhen, southern China, inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-mouthed.
Bystander videos published by local media on Weibo showed the skyscraper shaking as hundreds of terrified pedestrians ran away outside.
Building collapses are not rare in China, where lax building standards and breakneck urbanisation lead to constructions being thrown up in haste.
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It is China’s cheap knockoff, Go-Zilla.
Last year or year before an apartment building in London caught fire in the same manner.
Seeing the interior video, I think I’d leave my stuff and wait for the building to be repaired or collapse.
That’s exactly what I told my husband and children. Never buy Chinese products again.
Only made in USA or Canada. Even Mexico.
Anyplace but China.
LOL! Fond memories...
Muck Fexico.
I’m not in the Navy but I imagine that screen doors are very important in submarines. ;)
LOL! Literally.
Yeah. I get that.
I have no idea whether Mexico produces things. Other than children to send up North.
That song is now stuck in my head! LOL
Hard to tell with the Blair Witch Project quality video.
engineering and construction
I suspect this another example of natural frequency. A vibration that is in tune with the time it takes an object to vibrate makes the vibration bigger and bigger every cycle until something breaks. The Tocoma Narrows Bridge (galloping gurdy!) was a famous example. The same phenomenon is delibertly used to tune in stations on a radio.Good construction Engineering keeps this in mind and builds in appropriate dampening.
Everybody must have flushed the toilets at the same time. Things happen. /sarc.
The person making the video was wobbly!
Yer talkin' high heaven right there, my frenn, I don't care who you ayer!
I had.a feiwnd who had an office in the 80 or so floor of the Sears tower. On a windy day, you could see warpter slosh in a glass on his desk
Buildings in China are built as cheaply as possible as long as they look good from a distance. Up close, you might make out the Plaster of Paris ornaments or the cardboard used as concrete filler ... apartment buildings are marvelous when new, but receive no maintenance, not even a new light bulb, because renters can only rent for 7 years and then must move by law. ETC
Can’t tell from the fire picture, but I was in Hong Kong in the mid 60s and the scaffolding used was bamboo. Don’t recall how high the buildings with scaffolding were, but they were more than 10 stories.
They still use bamboo.... not sure how many storeys high but way more than 10. I think I’ve seen bamboo scaffolds more than 50 storeys.....
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