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>> yeah. well, this type of collapse we see often in earthquake countries. i mean our team and myself probably investigate over 500,000 buildings damaged and collapsed like this one. so you're talking about earthquakes. earthquake shakes and building collapse. but this is highly unusual because there is no tremor or there's no storm or nothing going on, right? but the building system is pretty simple. it's essentially the series of concrete plate. it's a floor, sits on top of what we call columns, essentially pillars. they're spaced usually about 10 meter each way, about 30 feet. and so if one...

But the building's systems actually pretty simple. it's essentially a series of concrete plate. it's a floor. sits on top of the, what we call, columns. essentially, pillars. they are spaced, usually, about 10 meter, each way, about-30 feet. and so, if one or so of the pillars fells, everything collapse on top of each other. that's exactly what happen there. and that, most likely, the column fail in some way in the center of the structure because that's where the failure was initiated. as you can see it, at the lower-level columns, which is collapse first, that's how actually work like that. n...