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Phnom Penh, A villa collapsed into the water around 4:35 pm on 21 June 2016. It is not sure how many people were in the house by the time the house collapsed into the water. The house is located in Preak Leap commune, Chroy Changva district, Phnom Penh. Villagers and Police went to the scene to see if there are people in the house that need assistance.

Source: ABC

Many houses in PP are floating on a layer of dirt several metres thick. Under that is just a slurry of mud and water. I remember a few years ago watching them drive long concrete piles for a building at Wat Phnom ,[ the radio station building ]. Once the piles were a couple of metres into the ground , they just disappeared into the slurry , under their own weight.

dam, that is near me.
good thing it is not a seismic zone here

frank lee bent wrote:dam, that is near me.
good thing it is not a seismic zone here

If that were ever to occur I will head to the beach & steal a boat. That is if I can get out from under all the bricks on my head.

frank lee bent wrote:dam, that is near me.
good thing it is not a seismic zone here

good thing if its a seismic zone too, only mud and slurry, absorb all the seismic energy

bolueeleh wrote:

frank lee bent wrote:dam, that is near me.
good thing it is not a seismic zone here

good thing if its a seismic zone too, only mud and slurry, absorb all the seismic energy

That's not how it works,,,, throw a stone into a pond of water and you will see how the waves will rock the countryside up and down like a rollercoaster ride.

the whole city would just sink into the liquefied mud in a quake

Wet slurry and buildings in an earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake

lucky im not a seismologist

from my personal research ABC is not a good source of knowledge, in fact it leads me astray