Here is What Happens When the Chinese Build Too Fast [Video]

Remember the 15-story hotel in-built six days ? Well, this 12-story apartment building lying down on the ground isn’t always it. That could had been too perfect.

In fact, this apartment block was not built with pre-fab techniques and it’s in no way Level 9 Earthquake-resistant. It’s just your typical brick and cement building.

They first build the block, and then started to excavate an underground parking on the front. They placed the soil on the back of the building. When the rains came, the water eroded the slope within the front of the terrain while, whilst, helped to filter the cloth on the back into the ground. This caused a 3,000-tonne lateral pressure, which was too much for the building’s weak pillars to withstand. They snapped like chopsticks, and the building fell down like a chopped tree.

Luckily for them, it was too distant from the opposite buildings to cause a domino effect. [Thanks C Levi!]

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