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SEG Plaza evacuation: Shaking 70 story China skyscraper sends shoppers fleeing
BBC news ^ | 05/18/2021

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.

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.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; directedenergy; futiandistrict; searchandfind; segplaza; shenzhen; skyscraper
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1 posted on 05/19/2021 8:18:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Does China even have building codes?


2 posted on 05/19/2021 8:20:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


3 posted on 05/19/2021 8:20:16 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tofu dregs construction strikes again.

CC


4 posted on 05/19/2021 8:22:57 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: 2banana

That’s what I was thinking as well


5 posted on 05/19/2021 8:23:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


6 posted on 05/19/2021 8:25:55 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: 2banana

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”


7 posted on 05/19/2021 8:31:51 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: SeekAndFind

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

I’d run away too.


8 posted on 05/19/2021 8:32:08 PM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


9 posted on 05/19/2021 8:33:29 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: SaveFerris
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.

10 posted on 05/19/2021 8:34:35 PM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


11 posted on 05/19/2021 8:38:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SeekAndFind

Made with Chinese steel.


12 posted on 05/19/2021 8:43:20 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


13 posted on 05/19/2021 8:49:39 PM PDT by bigbob
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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?


14 posted on 05/19/2021 8:54:29 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: Covenantor

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


15 posted on 05/19/2021 9:05:41 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: 2banana
"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.

16 posted on 05/19/2021 9:07:37 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Covenantor
They're no fun. They fell right over.

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

17 posted on 05/19/2021 9:30:30 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: Covenantor
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

18 posted on 05/19/2021 9:40:11 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Noumenon
> They're no fun. They fell right over.

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

19 posted on 05/19/2021 9:56:15 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Covenantor

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


20 posted on 05/19/2021 9:57:16 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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