Posted on 06/25/2016 3:26:23 PM PDT by Java4Jay
According to the Chinese government, 46 cities across China are sinking into the ground. In the last decade alone, Beijing has sunk 14 inches. The city continues to sink at a rate of nearly 11 centimeters per year.
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The Erf sucks.
git used to it. )
Frequently, this might occur when designers fail to consider adequate geotechnical investigation prior to construction and design.
This is a simple translation error. They are in Sing Kiang province. Those cities are Sing Kiang. Journalists rely on google too much.
Beijing
At the end of WW2, a naziscientist with help from the Japanese 731 brigade, engineered a time release mold made from liedermranzcheese. Mold from its weaponized version would eat holes in anything! The Chinese cities were targeted for regenge. Hence the deset of their cities..
Sorry, you’re making too much sense. Now repeat after me, “This is obviously due to racism and Donald Trump wanting to build a wall!”...
Remember the story in the Bible about the guy who built his house on the sand rather then the rock?
Same principle applies.
Mexico City is built on a lake which was filled in. That is why it is sinking.
I have often wondered about that because I grew up where the landscape changes abruptly from clay hills to sand hills. Interestingly the houses built on the sand don’t sink, they are stable but those built on the clay often sink slowly into the ground, causing foundation cracking etc.
I’ll go with Global Warming
Anyway,
Wei Tu Lo.
I wonder when Manhattan’s going to disappear.
China will sink and sink until it ends up here in the United States.
If you dig a hole here in the USA deep enough you end up in China.
Maybe we can meet them in the middle?
There are ways of building on both without sinking, but many who control construction become familiar with construction on more stable soils, and don’t think it’s important to really design for the actual soil conditions.
Take a look at California and people who built multimillion dollar homes on small hills, only to lose them in mudslides.
Same principles apply.
People bought the views and location, designed from Architectural Digest or some other architectural porn, and are then surprised when their homes collapse.
Mexico City used to be a water way so it is unstable anyway.
Bang Ding Ow.
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