"Most of the ones I looked at had just cracks in the wall--of no structural significance, " he says.

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Using state-of-the-art surveying equipment, Reeves is expected to begin searching cracks on the northern wall for a secret doorway leading to a previously undiscovered space.

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Even when there is no earthquake, it's impossible for me to live in a room with so many cracks on the wall and one side of the ceiling dropped.

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Sometimes when she parked at the center, crunching into the gravelled space between the kitchen and the high black garden wall, where the stones were mossy and ferns grew in the cracks, she was really all right for a moment.

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In its 400-page report, the committee recommended that the owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, along with the owners of the five garment factories housed in the building, to be charged with "culpable homicide, " for allegedly forcing employees to return to work on April 24 even though cracks had appeared on an exterior wall the previous day.

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Deep cracks beneath the waterline led to parts of the 80-year-old harbour wall collapsing in 2012.

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