FIU professor: Collapsed Surfside building showed signs of subsidence in ‘90s (Champlain Towers - Miami)

fiu.edu ^ | 06.24.2021 | Chrystian Tejedor

[rxsid]

[Kickass Conservative]

Maybe they can pin this in Jeb!

[rxsid]

Ping!

FIU professor: Collapsed Surfside building showed signs of subsidence in ‘90s (Champlain Towers - Miami)

[mewzilla]

FIU...of collapsing Bridge infamy?

[Kickass Conservative]

Looked at the Headline and thought it said “FU Professor”...

[BenLurkin]

“...all other ground is sinking sand.”

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Like always there will be a critical mass of errors and natural events. RIP you 99.

[oldasrocks]

Probably used chinese rebar and materials.

[liberalh8ter]

Great…another reason my insurance rates will be raised.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Will blame it on DeSantis

[immadashell]

But land subsidence in and of itself likely would not cause a building's collapse, according to Wdowinski, an expert in space geodesy, natural hazards and sea level rise.

Call Greta, this is clearly global warming!

[Sarah Barracuda]

If this building was literally sinking since the early 90s it took this long for it to collapse that makes no sense. Our house foundation also sinks from time to time, been like that since day 1, its the soil..tried putting beams, etc doesnt seem to ever do the trick so every few years or so we start to see cracks here and there on the walls and at night and when it rains its harder to open for instance the bathroom door, but the house wont collapse..

[rxsid]

USA Today has an article on this, but direct links are banned and the article is behind a paywall.

Can check it out via WayBack machine:

Collapsed Miami condo had been sinking into Earth as early as the 1990s, researchers say
https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201150if_/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/06/24/building-collapse-miami-structure-had-been-sinking-into-earth/7778631002/

[rxsid]

Indeed!

[MagUSNRET]

One wonders if that cheap lousy quality concrete from China was used in the construction, ala Oakland Bay bridge.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The land isn’t sinking...the sea level is rising. Global Climate Catastrophe! Stop eating meat!

[Steely Tom]

I think subsidence is the reason for a lot (if not most) of the “rising sea level” stories.

[yesthatjallen]

Did they build it on sand?

[week 71]

A Florida sinkhole? Who knows. Very sad - hopefully many will be recovered. I think I would be a little nervous if I lived in a condo near that one until we know what happened.

[Bernard]

So, in plainer English, using drilled and poured sticks of concrete to stand on bedrock is not as good as building on bedrock itself. Good to know.