If I was in a building with 6 floors and it collapsed, what floor would be most likely to have survivors?
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I think in most cases where large structures collapsed survivors ended up being from the bottom or even the basement where people just ended trapped under rubble that arranged itself in such a way as to not pres down on them.
Of course a repeated pattern in those cases is that people who survived the initial collapse ended up drowning, which is not really an improvement.
Mostly I think it depends on the building and the circumstances, but I have never heard of anyone who was on the top of building and survived riding the collapse of the structure down.
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