Jam a building full of people, and get them jumping in time with the music, and the forces on the structure are significant. Add in some substandard construction, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
Exactly!
yep.
it’s an old recurring issue.
Yeah. A house party in Chicago that collapsed a porch cost me about 20k when they made the code change so that a party of 100 idiots could jump on a porch without it collapsing.
I hear of shelves and cabinets installed by Our Mexican Friends coming off walls with a firm tug of the hand...I’ve seen some of their appalling electrical work and wonder why there aren’t fires every night.
I’m sorry for any injuries but these apartment buildings probably feature the worst of the worst in construction and materials.
The theory of Tesla’s Earthquake Machine?
There’s a reason armies don’t march on bridges.