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"It just becomes dead weight and falls on the people inside"
Earthquake specialist Emily So explains why quake death tolls are so much higher in developing countries.
(Photo: Pakistani Kashmiri girls play outside a collapsed house in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, 2005. Credit to Getty Images)
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