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yeah. well, this type of collapse we see often in earthquake countries. i mean our team and myself probably investigate over 500,000 buildings damaged and collapsed like this one. so you re talking about earthquakes. earthquake shakes and building collapse. but this is highly unusual because there is no tremor or there s no storm or nothing going on, right? but the building system is pretty simple. it s essentially the series of concrete plate. it s a floor, sits on top of what we call columns, essentially pillars. they re spaced usually about 10 meter each way, about 30 feet. and so if one of the pillars fails, everything collapse on top of each other. that s exactly what happened there. and that most likely the column failed is somewhere in the center of the structure because that s where the failure was
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Jan 15, 2021 11:17 AM EST
For millennia, ancient oceans have been steady, and climate change barely affected them. A few centuries of human activities have changed the earth s oceans, not for the better.
The earth s seas are old and have changed the continents moved along the tectonic plates. But, generally, oceans were regular with no hiccups.
Everything has changed, and the oxygen levels that hardly change are not as resilient in primeval seas. Climate change has caused drastic changes in the earth s oceans, and it is serious, reported SciTech Daily.
The biggest factor is the oxygen level of modern seas, which is not the same as earlier times.