A 72-story skyscraper in downtown Shenzhen, China, began shaking vertically earlier this week. Viral videos on social media showed hundreds fleeing the building
15,000 Evacuate as Shenzhen Skyscraper Wobbles in Fine Weather Without Earthquake
No earthquake had been reported in the region, which was only experiencing light winds.
The swaying of the 21-year-old building started at approximately 12:31 p.m. local time on Tuesday.
Videos circulating on social media showed people running away from the building, with some screaming, holding umbrellas, and looking back over their shoulders.
Chinese media reported that all 15,000 evacuees escaped from the building within 90 minutes. Nobody was injured.
On Wednesday, some local media reports said the building had started swaying again, although not as dramatically as it had on Tuesday. The building remained closed off for investigators, although the landlord Shenzhen SEG Co. Ltd. had allowed shop owners from the major electronics market in first 10 levels of the building to collect their goods.
HSBC top brass forced to hot desk as HQ scraps executive floor
18 Apr, 2021 09:00 PM
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HSBC s headquarters in the east London financial quarter of Canary Wharf. Photo / 123RF
Financial Times
By: Stephen Morris
HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn has abolished the entire executive floor of its Canary Wharf skyscraper in east London, as the bank becomes the latest to drive through sweeping changes to post-pandemic working practices. Top managers have been booted out of their 42nd-floor private offices, which have been turned into client meeting rooms and collaborative spaces, Quinn told the Financial Times. Executives the CEO included now hot desk on an open-plan floor two storeys below.