In the afternoon of May 18, Shenzhen Futian District Huaqiang North Street Saige building occurred unexplained shaking, at least tens of thousands of people fled the building. (Video screenshot composite)
In the afternoon of May 19, the building was shaken again. At the time, many businesses in the building were still busy shipping goods, causing concern.
According to a report by Interface News, at around 2:00 p.m. on May 19, two merchants on the 6th floor and one on the 5th floor of the Saige Building said that the building had shaken between 1:30 and 2:00. At present, the building in principle only allows businesses and other internal staff to enter and exit.
The report said there were still many businesses busy on the 1st to 6th floors of the Sage Tower, with some of them pulling carts to deliver goods from inside. The report quoted a businessman selling mining machines as saying she was not worried about the security of the building, although customers could not enter, she thought her business would only be affected temporarily.
According to a report by the “Jedi News,” merchants in the Sage Tower can now enter the building through Gate 1, and a merchant on the 4th floor said the property briefly let them into the building because “a customer wanted the goods and I needed to send them out.” On the 6th floor and above, almost all of the doors were closed.
A merchant on the 25th floor said that the property asked them to leave as soon as possible after dealing with urgent matters. At present, to enter the interior of the Saige Building still need to prove that they are internal merchants, at the same time, may not stay for a long time.
Dragged by the incident, with the Shenzhen Saige building part of the property of Shenzhen Saige shares opened on the morning of the 19th once dived, once fell more than 7.58%. Shenzhen Saige said that the total floor area of the Saige building of 170,000 square meters, Shenzhen Saige holds only 39,900 square meters.
Around 12:31 to 13:00 on May 18, the vibration phenomenon occurred in the Sage Plaza building. A video circulated on the Internet showed a large number of people inside the building running quickly to escape the building. Some sources said that at least ten thousand people fled the building.
Due to the emergency evacuation, there are many people working in the building’s computers, cell phones, keys and other items left in the building, it is unknown when they can get back.
A person engaged in civil engineering told Caixin that usually, high-rise buildings are designed to allow buildings to swing in high winds and other meteorological conditions, but there are limits to the magnitude. From the scene video, the swinging amplitude of the Sage Plaza building is already an abnormal situation. If you exclude the earthquake or the building around a large-scale blasting factors, the cause of abnormal vibration is more likely to resonate.
Experts at the scene said that the main structure of the building is safe, the surrounding environment is not found to involve abnormalities, the surrounding ground is not found cracking, indoor steel structure and decorative surface in a normal state, the specific causes of vibration is still under investigation.
On May 19, the mainland financial media “One Real Estate” article disclosed that the Sage Building had repeatedly shaken, is an unsolved mystery for 22 years. The article said that on the 18th, there were experts from the China Academy of Building Research and the Shenzhen Academy of Building Research participating and signing the four opinions on the 518 incident given at the emergency expert meeting, without mentioning the resonance of the accident conclusion.
Public information shows that is located in Shenzhen Huaqiang North of the Sage building, by the Shenzhen Sage Group investment in the construction, completed in 1999, the total height of the building more than 340 meters, the total building layer 79 floors, 75 floors above ground, 4 underground, the total construction area of 170,000 square meters.
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