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mystery-ak:
 980-foot skyscraper sways in China, prompting panic and evacuations

By Ben Cost

May 18, 2021 | 10:18am | Updated

It was on shaky ground.

A Chinese skyscraper had to be evacuated Tuesday afternoon after it began inexplicably swaying on its foundation, prompting scores of bystanders to flee in terror, as seen in a series of viral videos circulating social media.

The shaky incident occurred around 1 p.m. at Shenzhen’s SEG Electronics Building, which is one of China’s tallest structures in the city at a whopping 980 feet tall.

“The people in the building and downstairs fled for their lives!” read the caption to one of the Twitter clips, which depicts petrified shoppers stampeding across a plaza like scene out of a monster movie.

A follow-up clip posted by local media shows the top of the 73-story structure, on which two white conductor poles can be seen wobbling precariously.


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https://twitter.com/ShenzhenPages/status/1394558949685284864

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Lando Lincoln:
Some sort of wind load harmonics maybe?  That would be unnerving, for sure.

DefiantMassRINO:

The new subway cars the Chi-Coms are building for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority are crap, too.

thackney:
Different view of the building

thackney:

--- Quote from: Lando Lincoln on May 18, 2021, 05:51:56 pm ---Some sort of wind load harmonics maybe?  That would be unnerving, for sure.

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Hard to imagine if caused by wind, this was the first time for a 20 year old building.

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