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An earthquake-proof house made of clay? Inside the Yunnan home Hong Kong architects built from rubble

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After a magnitude 6.1 earthquake reduced a small village in southwest China to rubble in 2014, its residents no longer thought clay houses were strong enough to withstand natural disasters. That is until a team of architects from a Hong Kong university built a clay house with a modern construction technique that can withstand magnitude 9 earthquakes. Yunnan earthquake death toll tops 400 as barrier lakes pose new threat to survivors In earthquake-prone Yunnan province, the team from Chinese...

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