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What’s the difference? This building in Manta suffered a complete collapse of its first floor. Miraculously, the upper floors did not pancake, as is often the case in ‘soft first story’ collapses like this one. Source: EERI, Mei Kuen Liu, Google Street View

What’s the difference? This building in Manta suffered a complete collapse of its first floor. Miraculously, the upper floors did not pancake, as is often the case in ‘soft first story’ collapses like this one. Source: EERI, Mei Kuen Liu, Google Street View