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Originally Posted by Klazu
58-storey luxury condo skyscraper in San Francisco is sinking and leaning. Have such happened ever in Vancouver? Big parts of Yaletown and Coal Harbour are built on reclaimed land...
Would be interesting to know how they plan on dealing with the problem as it is sinking with speed.
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We have lots of sinking buildings here in Mexico City. In many cases it causes absolutely no damage to the building itself because it's built on a solid foundation, the problem is a large part of the city is built on a dry lake bed and the groundwater underneath the soil is constantly being pumped out and not replenished. So the foundation sinks along with the ground but the road generally does not sink (or at least not as fast)
After the 1985 earthquake there are lots of buildings you see where the first floor is now at ground level and you have to take stairs down to the ground floor.