Prison sentences were passed out to engineers and contractors on those collapsed apartment towers IIRC.
Posted on 05/19/2021 8:18:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A skyscraper of more than 70 storeys has been evacuated after it started to shake, sending shoppers scrambling for safety in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Local authorities do not yet know what caused the 300m (980ft) SEG Plaza building to wobble on Tuesday afternoon.
No earthquakes were recorded at the time. An investigation is under way.
The 20-year-old building houses an electronics market and offices.
It stands in the heart of Shenzhen, a sprawling city of more than 12 million people known for its shopping and booming tech industry.
Footage shared on social media showed hundreds of people running away from the skyscraper shortly after it was evacuated.
People in Shenzhen reported to have fled the 73-story SEG Plaza after the building tilted on its foundations. No earthquake recorded in the area https://t.co/OV0g4Luz5O— Austin Ramzy (@austinramzy) May 18, 2021
China's Global Times newspaper said the local government of Shenzhen's Futian district, where SEG Plaza is located, received reports of shaking from staff inside the building at 12:31 local time (05:31 GMT).
By 14:00, everyone inside the building had been evacuated, the newspaper reported.
In a later statement, the local government said a preliminary investigation found "no cracks in the ground surrounding the building" and no damage to "pieces of outer wall".
Completed in 2000, the SEG Plaza is the 104th-tallest building in China and the 212th-tallest in the world, according to the , an online database.
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Does China even have building codes?
I will take Wind Resonance for $200 Alex...
Tofu dregs construction strikes again.
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That’s what I was thinking as well
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
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”
The sound of 1500 people who’ve eaten bad shrimp with lobster sauce for lunch...
I’d run away too.
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.
Prison sentences were passed out to engineers and contractors on those collapsed apartment towers IIRC.
Hard to enforce code when the tower is built in a week.
Made with Chinese steel.
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.
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?
I remember that incident. The rebar used for reinforcement was said to be no thicker than a pencil.
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.
Betcha whoever owns it will still rent it out. Mei banfa.
Lemons —> Lemonade
According to Testlicle's Deviant to Fudd's First Law of Opposition.
On the bright side, the building stayed wonderfully intact after the foundation failed, allowing the structure to fall over upon it’s side!
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