On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:53:58 -0600, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:19:55 -0800, Denis G. wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/ycvgolp
or
http://www.engineering.com/Library/A...5/articleType/
ArticleView/articleId/410/Ever-see-a-12-story-building-just-fall-over.aspx

At least no one was living in it yet (at least one _hopes_ there was no
one living in it yet).

Anyone want an apartment? It's only seven feet wide, but it's twenty
feet high!

This is about a year old. Look at all the window treatments and
blinds already installed - I think they evacuated in time, but it was
occupied.

Those footings would have been inadequate even without the hole on
one side. spoils on the other, and a lot of rain to soften everything
up. IMHO a good strong earthquake would have taken it down.

Betcha they called in an army of manual laborers and salvaged out
all the unbroken windows, then the contents, then took it apart brick
by brick, saved all the rebar and crunched the concrete bits into
fresh aggregate...

-- Bruce --