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Panic as 300-metre-high skyscraper wobbles in China
The Guardian ^ | 18 May 2021

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; segplaza; shimmy; skyscraper
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It is China’s cheap knockoff, Go-Zilla.


61 posted on 05/18/2021 2:44:50 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: hecticskeptic

Last year or year before an apartment building in London caught fire in the same manner.


62 posted on 05/18/2021 2:53:32 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: BenLurkin

Seeing the interior video, I think I’d leave my stuff and wait for the building to be repaired or collapse.


63 posted on 05/18/2021 2:56:01 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: wetgundog

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.


64 posted on 05/18/2021 3:07:00 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Fond memories...


65 posted on 05/18/2021 3:07:35 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: proud American in Canada

Muck Fexico.


66 posted on 05/18/2021 3:08:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: grey_whiskers; Mariner

I’m not in the Navy but I imagine that screen doors are very important in submarines. ;)


67 posted on 05/18/2021 3:10:21 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: BiteYourSelf

LOL! Literally.


68 posted on 05/18/2021 3:11:15 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: central_va

Yeah. I get that.

I have no idea whether Mexico produces things. Other than children to send up North.


69 posted on 05/18/2021 3:13:18 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That song is now stuck in my head! LOL


70 posted on 05/18/2021 3:14:03 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hard to tell with the Blair Witch Project quality video.


71 posted on 05/18/2021 3:22:01 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: kanawa

engineering and construction


72 posted on 05/18/2021 3:39:38 PM PDT by xp38
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


73 posted on 05/18/2021 3:57:57 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Everybody must have flushed the toilets at the same time. Things happen. /sarc.


74 posted on 05/18/2021 4:18:56 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: BenLurkin

The person making the video was wobbly!


75 posted on 05/18/2021 4:20:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: bigdaddy45
Exercise class for obese women on a high floor in a corner room.

Yer talkin' high heaven right there, my frenn, I don't care who you ayer!

76 posted on 05/18/2021 4:26:38 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


77 posted on 05/18/2021 4:33:24 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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


78 posted on 05/18/2021 5:07:33 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: hecticskeptic

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.


79 posted on 05/18/2021 5:59:01 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

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.....


80 posted on 05/18/2021 6:22:31 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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