Video shows the moment apartment building sinks by one floor in Taipei

Footage has emerged showing an apartment building in Taipei, Taiwan, sinking by one floor into the ground on the evening of Thursday, September 7.

Furthermore, reports were made to the Taipei City Government offices on Thursday evening about tilting occurring on residential buildings in Taipei’s Dazhi area, of Zhongshan District.

More specifically, according to Taipei News, there were five to six buildings in the area presenting cracks and tilting, while complaints had previously been made about the issue.

The reason behind the event was reported to be an excavation taking place on a nearby construction site, which at the time had reached a depth of three floors, but proper foundation work had not been completed.

This resulted in the excavation’s slurry wall failing, making it unable to provide adequate support to the surrounding soil mass.

At 10.49 p.m. on Thursday, one of the nearby buildings was caught on video sinking into the ground and tilting. Shortly after, at about 11 p.m., the Mayor of Taipai, Chiang Wan-an, arrived on scene.

Attempting to mitigate, crews were mobilized to inject water and grout into the ground to restore supporting pressure to the tilted building and reduce any further movement.

Nearby residents were evacuated, with reports stating that the initial number of evacuees was 144 people from 35 households, which was later raised to 367 residents from 197 households being accommodated in hotels, while nobody got hurt in the events.