No foundation? This is totally pathetic. Haven't they learn anything yet after the earthquake? I wonder if the other buildings are the same as this building. Amazingly it still in one piece. They need to check if other buildings have a solid foundation.
That looks like a Godzilla movie. I thought big buildings were supposed to break apart... not just fall over like a Lego?
I remember seeing it on the news, something about too much earth and soil being piled up on one side putting a lot of pressure on the building, making it collapse...
Just fell over unforced, man.. I wondered a couple times being in California how a 6.5 earthquake here is some scary tremors and things falling over, like 8 people falling and bruising themselves. And a 6.5 in other countries leaves thousands dead and homeless on the streets. Even the hardest earthquakes the past 20 years in the US, they leave some expensive building damage but the death counts arent nearly as high as other countries.
I was in Beijing last week and there was this 40 story building that apparently burnt down before it was finished. The problem is they can't do anything without it collapsing the buildings next to it. So its just sitting in a heaping mess.
Thats crazy. The weird thing is, to fall over complete like that, some parts of it must have been well built. Just not the parts that make it stay upright!
I'm not going to say that our building codes aren't responsible for lives being saved.... but a 6.5 earthquake in one place can be vastly different in another. The kinds of soil a building is built upon, the amount of groundwater in the soil, the duration of the quake and the direction of the motion are all big factors in the amount of damage done.
There is to much corruption there. Getting permit has more to do with where you took the official out to dinner and how fat the envelope was.
I wonder how these type of building got approved. I mean it probably would've been fine without a large foundation if that 13floors building was square. It topple over because the of the height and width and the soft soil unbalanced it. To bad only 1 person got kill and will go unnoticed because they will continue building it.
Not really but that's how it's usually work. I mean if one of the dead is their worker then there won't be a big investigation into the corruption behind these contractors. What would you rather have? Them building 10 and people already moving in of these buildings and wait for a devastating outcome? Imagine the domino affect if they are build close to one another. Of course I would preferred that some people in a higher places in China saw this and report it.
That would be hilarious. But, I can't imagine -- even in China -- that they would just sweep such a dramatic accident under the rug and move on. Who would want to walk down the street, much less live in one of those buildings? It's not like they can keep it a secret.
