A statement on the social media platform Weibo said: “After checking and analysing the data of various earthquake monitoring stations across the city, there was no earthquake in Shenzhen today.” The wind was also ruled out as a cause.
Officials added that no safety abnormalities were found in the main structure and there was no damage. No one was hurt in the evacuation.
Engineer Lu Jianxin from China Construction Science and Industry, told the newspaper
Shenzhen Special Zone Daily that “resonance” effects could have caused the shaking.
“If there was no earthquake today, it would be unusual for SEG Plaza to have such a situation,” Lu was quoted as saying, reports the