SEG Plaza evacuation: Shaking 70 story China skyscraper sends shoppers fleeing

BBC news ^ | 05/18/2021

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Does China even have building codes?

[2banana]

I will take Wind Resonance for $200 Alex...

[Celtic Conservative]

Tofu dregs construction strikes again.

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[SaveFerris]

That’s what I was thinking as well

[hercuroc]

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

[Cold Heart]

I think you are right. I originally thought an earth harmonic.

I did notice in the fleeing populace that almost nobody was wearing “The Mask”

[_longranger81]

The sound of 1500 people who’ve eaten bad shrimp with lobster sauce for lunch...

I’d run away too.

[UNGN]

Most modern tall buildings like that have active mass balancers in the top floors.

Nobody really knows what happens when these get old and go bad.

[Covenantor]

Seems they have major problems doing foundations and soil analysis.

Prison sentences were passed out to engineers and contractors on those collapsed apartment towers IIRC.

[Rebelbase]

Hard to enforce code when the tower is built in a week.

[Enterprise]

Made with Chinese steel.

[bigbob]

I’d rather China pay the price of it’s crap building standards another way because if that sucker falls down it will wreck the electronics markets.

[Peter ODonnell]

That building didn’t fall down, they are just waiting for a crew to show up to put it into place.

Believed me there for a second, right?

[BradyLS]

I remember that incident. The rebar used for reinforcement was said to be no thicker than a pencil.

[mass55th]

"I will take Wind Resonance for $200 Alex..."

They just had several of the glass panels on the Piyan Mountain bridge in Longjing, China, shatter about 10 days ago due to high winds. One tourist was left clinging for his life. He finally crawled to safety.

[Noumenon]

They're no fun. They fell right over.

Betcha whoever owns it will still rent it out. Mei banfa.

[noiseman]

Now they can just advertise the apartments as “easy access.” Every apartment is now a first floor apartment, no elevator needed. And many of them now feature skylights.

Lemons —> Lemonade

[dayglored]

> They're no fun. They fell right over.

According to Testlicle's Deviant to Fudd's First Law of Opposition.

[Ozark Tom]

On the bright side, the building stayed wonderfully intact after the foundation failed, allowing the structure to fall over upon it’s side!