But unlike these resilient blocks came crashing down completely without warning. Many anomalies such as concertinaed individual storeys, rebars (reinforcing bars) pulled clean and straight out of the bases of columns, rebars snapped through like dry spaghetti, and even the joints between beams and columns filled out with cooking-oil cans, were reported to the world by the international media, to the shame of Taiwan's construction industry.
和這些堅韌建築相較，許多新蓋的公寓大樓完全無預警式的轟然倒塌，樓層擠壓堆疊、主筋從柱底齊齊地連根拔起、鋼筋像脆粉絲般斷裂、樑柱間還以沙拉油桶填充等等怪象，隨著國際媒體傳遍世界，已成為台灣建築業之恥。