Engineers: lives lost in Mexico quake could have been saved

In this Sept. 24, 2017 photo, a police officer stands guard at an apartment building that was partially destroyed during the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, on Emiliano Zapata Avenue in Mexico City. The eco-friendly apartment building with its wood-paneled balconies and a solar-paneled roof collapsed when a corner column failed, and the flat-slab structure pancaked, said Eduardo Miranda, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford and global expert on earthquake-resistant design. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Engineers: lives lost in Mexico quake could have been saved

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