<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/22975f8c-69b0-4289-a83e-b3045faba4d5/8A33744F-A2CC-4039-A598-D188FAF7323C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/" href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.weirdasianews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><P>A newly built and unoccupied 13-story apartment <A href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2006/12/14/hottest-house-in-the-world-literally/" linkindex="19">building</A> in Shanghai fell over with no apparent provocation. Miraculously, only one person died in the near-catastrophe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.weirdasianews.com/img/C6EB0EE6-DAA4-4628-BD70-4626E7D7BE61" alt="shanghaiapt11 Entire High Rise Building Tips Over picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><P>The building fell over in one piece. Footage of the collapse on Hong Kong’s Cable Television showed the structure in a muddy construction site, pilings still visible at its base.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.weirdasianews.com/img/49302DE8-1056-4AC3-8714-91CE6F4ECC5A" alt="shanghaiapt4 Entire High Rise Building Tips Over picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><P>Construction was nearly complete on the luxury high-rise, situated fashionably near the Dianpu River on the outskirts of Shanghai.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.weirdasianews.com/img/C441079D-8625-43E7-9309-077CD6C88541" alt="shanghaiapt3 Entire High Rise Building Tips Over picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><P>No cause of the crash was immediately obvious. Some have speculated that the crash was the result of issues with nearby flood prevention from the Dianpu River.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.weirdasianews.com/img/A8A59FDF-F408-4738-9EA3-1F673162BED3" alt="shanghaiapt2 Entire High Rise Building Tips Over picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"><P>Other observers claim that the collapse is indicative of widespread use of sub-par building materials and shoddy construction in China, a major concern in the rapidly urbanizing country. Last year, a steel arch on a bridge collapsed and killed seven, and a crane fell and killed five kindergartners.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/07/04/entire-highrise-building-tips/"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8A33744F-A2CC-4039-A598-D188FAF7323C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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