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PaulAspie t1_jb10l3s wrote

What structural collapse killed 200,000. There is almost no structure that can even hold that many? That's like 40-50 world trade centers.

Or is a dam failure? That would make sense but I would classify that different.

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databeautifier OP t1_jb1791a wrote

Yes, the structure was the Banqiao Dam and the upper end of the death count estimate was 240,000 which includes subsequent diseases and hunger-related deaths. I followed the source's classification as a structural collapse.

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