Which risk increases considerably when the ziggurat core experiences significant subsidence?

💡 Explanation

Ziggurat subsidence increases collapse risk because differential settlement induces structural stress, resulting in cracking via stress concentration, therefore leading to failure in less flexible outer baked layer rather than uniform deformation.

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