Miami Condo Collapse - Engineering

 

This was a total pancake to dust.  It's like the old Soviet blocks in the Armenian earthquake.  No building code allows this to happen, so we have to make some criminal assumptions.  Don't forget that all drug cartels launder money through these towers.  And Toronto.

I have said that all cities have the same seismic risk of destruction, because the low zones become really slack.  This is a collapse with no earthquake, the ultimate slackness.  Had the building been monitored, it would have shown a lot of displacement before the collapse.  Would the building owners have done anything? 

So, we are probably looking at sandy concrete, and a lack of steel.  For Toronto, this is what will happen with a big earthquake in Hamilton, at about 1 in 10,000 chance per year.  We, most likely, won't have total dust pancakes.

ps.  as contrast, the big earthquake in Chile had most of the condos tilting, and some fall right over.  No dust pancakes.

pps.  I hope the remaining buildings are closed.