Wobbly apartment block
- John Bingham
- Expatriate
- Posts: 13787
- Joined: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:26 pm
- Reputation: 8983
Re: Wobbly apartment block
As far as I know bedrock is usually quite a few kilometers thick rather than a few meters.Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:02 pm
Ah, i understood PP sitting on 9 to 76 meters of bedrock, my bad.
No, there have been very few considering the dodgy building practices.Do you not see all the building collapses in the news?
Silence, exile, and cunning.
Re: Wobbly apartment block
If the Chinese had anything to do with the building get the hell out, they have many building failures in china
Re: Wobbly apartment block
Recently there has been at least one building collapse in Sihanoukville another in Kampot, which both claimed a lot of lives there were also numerous buildings that were inspected after those collapses that were supposed to be demolished.(but were they)????John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:30 pmAs far as I know bedrock is usually quite a few kilometers thick rather than a few meters.Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:02 pm
Ah, i understood PP sitting on 9 to 76 meters of bedrock, my bad.
No, there have been very few considering the dodgy building practices.Do you not see all the building collapses in the news?
- Ghostwriter
- Expatriate
- Posts: 3149
- Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:01 am
- Reputation: 2025
Re: Wobbly apartment block
Allright, but a few reliable local and international companies have built imposing buildings in PP though, so, even if the city is sitting on a slim bedrock + jelly, these people must have tested the geology and sismic activity, don't you think ? There is foundations down through the jelly to the bedrock, i suppose ?John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:30 pm As far as I know bedrock is usually quite a few kilometers thick rather than a few meters.
I guess the OP situation relies more on bad construction, or resonance / vibrations from something apart, than on parameters tied to sismic activity ? Or maybe his building is just sitting on jelly indeed, and slowly moves depending on...the jelly/swamp compression fluctuations ?
- John Bingham
- Expatriate
- Posts: 13787
- Joined: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:26 pm
- Reputation: 8983
Re: Wobbly apartment block
Sure, I remember both were quite a while back. Like I said, very few.andy1 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:22 pmRecently there has been at least one building collapse in Sihanoukville another in Kampot, which both claimed a lot of lives there were also numerous buildings that were inspected after those collapses that were supposed to be demolished.(but were they)????John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:30 pmAs far as I know bedrock is usually quite a few kilometers thick rather than a few meters.Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:02 pm
Ah, i understood PP sitting on 9 to 76 meters of bedrock, my bad.
No, there have been very few considering the dodgy building practices.Do you not see all the building collapses in the news?
Silence, exile, and cunning.
Re: Wobbly apartment block
I have no idea. There were barely any high-rise buildings in PP twenty years ago so I’m guessing it’s younger than that.
timmydownawell wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:23 pm Is it more noticeable in high winds, like just before the rain storms hit?
Not that I’ve noticed. We did have that particularly nasty brief storm a few weeks ago and I didn’t experience any swaying then.
It is 100% pretty much exclusively felt when there is movement somewhere in the block. I feel it strongest when my partner is exercising on the balcony, but I can also tell when people are simply walking up the stairs on the side of the building. When I feel it start to sway, especially at night, I listen out for someone opening their door shortly after, and they always do. There are also times when it just happens for no apparent reason, but I just get the feeling someone on the upper floors is doing something to cause it. [insert your own jokes here]
We’ve pretty much decided it’s best to just get out of there. It’s probably an over-reaction and I know that sudden building collapses are very rare, but they do happen, and we just don’t feel safe there. Walking back last night I looked at the entire building from the side and it appeared to me that it was slightly leaning. My partner couldn’t see it and told me I was being stupid, but for the first time I could easily imagine the building simply falling forward.
I hope we are just exaggerating, but I’d rather be safe than sorry.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumb ones to lead the pack.
- General Mackevili
- The General
- Posts: 18429
- Joined: Tue May 06, 2014 5:24 pm
- Reputation: 3422
- Location: The Kingdom
- Contact:
Re: Wobbly apartment block
You're just paranoid. Building built in Cambodia have never just collapsed. Oh wait...
Kep 2020
Sihanoukville 2019
"Life is too important to take seriously."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Google+
Instagram
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
YouTube
Google+
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 3 Replies
- 1936 Views
-
Last post by pauloxleyisland
-
- 1 Replies
- 955 Views
-
Last post by CEOCambodiaNews
-
- 0 Replies
- 757 Views
-
Last post by CEOCambodiaNews
-
- 1 Replies
- 1150 Views
-
Last post by nemo
-
- 8 Replies
- 3497 Views
-
Last post by topping avenue
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Ahrefs [Bot], Bongmab69, boringperson, Majestic-12 [Bot], Semrush [Bot], xandreu and 731 guests