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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

You're probably right. It is so unusual for a whole building to crater instantly... I've heard of a building shifting and becoming dangerous and people noting it and freaking out. But I don't recall a large building like this just dropping like a demo.

Rate of building sinkage at 2 millimeters a year comes to .07 inches a year since the nineties...aprox. 2 inches max on reclaimed wetlands with or without pool leakage. My bet is: the complete pancaking succession of 12 floors ala the World Trade Center (100+) floors when jet fuel fires weakened the 1 acre slab floors (98th floor aircraft impact point) was caused by a critical steel support failure of a floor; initiating the sudden collapse with a preliminary amount of shaking as reported by Cassondra Billedeau on the phone to her husband, Michael Stratton as the building collapsed: "She described that the building was shaking and then the phone went dead..." I would consider saltwater corrosion at the ocean-front location to be a factor.

 

nothing in that 12-layer pancake is getting out alive...no imho about it.