A number of residents have returned to their apartments while several have had to relocate following reports of people hearing and seeing “cracking” in a 38-story high-rise building in Sydney, Australia, throughout the morning of Dec. 24.
Amid fears of building collapse, more than 3,000 people were evacuated from the 392-apartment building and its surroundings as a one-kilometre exclusion zone was put in place. They were not allowed back into their homes but were sent to an evacuation centre in central Sydney—the Royal Hall of Industries. Of the 3,000, about 300 residents were from the tower itself and two neighboring towers.
