80% of destroyed houses in epicenter are made of adobe
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Channel: Hi China · 2014 · News & Politics
Almost the entire Longtoushan township was reduced to rubble in just 15 seconds. 526 people died there. Officials in the township say at least 80 percent of the houses that crumbled were made of adobe, or mud bricks
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