Building collapsed in So Florida

[SixT9er]

This is unbelievable!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/re ... =algorithm
Watch the 2nd video that shows the event from security camera on another building. I can’t imagine a building ever just collapsing on its own like that! I can’t believe there will be any survivors but there always are a few miracles ones.

[Wildfire]

This is unbelievable!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/re ... =algorithm
Watch the 2nd video that shows the event from security camera on another building. I can’t imagine a building ever just collapsing on its own like that! I can’t believe there will be any survivors but there always are a few miracles ones.

Man, that looked like an intentional implosion.

[SixT9er]

Only thing besides that I can think of to do this would be Liquefaction where the soil becomes liquid but this is caused by a seismic event which none have been mentioned

[Wildfire]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-force ... p_deeplink

[georoc01]

Only thing besides that I can think of to do this would be Liquefaction where the soil becomes liquid but this is caused by a seismic event which none have been mentioned

Much of Florida is built on limestone, which is getting eroded by sea water over time. Its also why you have these sudden sinkholes appear in that state.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Florida

[SixT9er]

Only thing besides that I can think of to do this would be Liquefaction where the soil becomes liquid but this is caused by a seismic event which none have been mentioned

Much of Florida is built on limestone, which is getting eroded by sea water over time. Its also why you have these sudden sinkholes appear in that state.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Florida

I was reading this was built on a barrier island & the are made up basically of sand & silty clay. If the foundation wasn’t resting on solid ground below this the tides probably eroded the sand beneath the footings. Scary thing is there are 100’s of buildings on these barrier islands in Florida!

[SIDEWINDER]

Not just Florida. San Francisco too.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspick ... 439863.php

[SixT9er]

Not just Florida. San Francisco too.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspick ... 439863.php

Difference between SF & Fla is Florida’s barrier islands are made by the ocean moving the sand creating the island with no solid materials beneath it. In SF the man made land into the bay had much better soils that were dumped there & built up over time. I doubt we’ll see a collapse there like Miami’s. The building in sinking I’m guessing not by erosion but by poor companion at the time of construction. They’ll be able to jack it up & reinforce it to the now compacted ground below. Those Miami barrier island structures have no sold ground beneath them. I can’t imagine what it will take to upgrade those 100’s of bldg’s by installing pilings into stable soil below the sand to strengthen them

[georoc01]

Yeah, it appears that Miami is destined to become the Venice of America.

https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2020-0 ... torm-surge

They've been doing the same thing in New Orleans, where it already sits below sea level.

[SIDEWINDER]

Man made or not, the ground couldn't be that strong under the building in San Francisco or it wouldn't be sinking. As far as FLA. goes, oceans which are rising is probably not going to help either. Too bad, I saw video of the neighborhood on the news and it's just gorgeous. I know if I lived there, I would be scared of having the same thing happen. What gets me is they knew about this building for some time and yet it doesn't seem like much was done.

[rachelvarga]

It is very rare for this to happen here so it is shocking. America has some of the safest buildings in the world. The only thing I don't like is that when something like this happens no one is punished if it is was man made problem. Insurance just pays for it. A place crashes because of negligence just pay the families.

The 1977 earthquake in Bucharest killed about 1,578 people (1,424 in Bucharest) in Romania, and wounded more than 11,300. About 32,900 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The red signs tell you that the building is unstable and could collapse in an Earthquake. You cannot buy or sell these buildings.

These were built during the communist times and everything was corrupt and the bureaucracy was massive. Socialism in the United States is not Communism. If you have not lived under communism you cannot truly understand what it is like. California is not communist or even close. When people say that socialism is communism it is offensive to those of us that lived and had family that lived under the reign of a dictator with a security apparatus that was 11:1. One Securitate officer for every eleven citizens. Just like saying Conservatism is Fascism, it's just not true. There is no Communism or Fascism here.

Sorry to get off topic.

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