US architects exploring an overhang fall in California that executed six individuals and harmed seven others say water harm may have brought about the structure to give way.
The episode happened amid a 21st birthday party in the early hours of Tuesday in the city of Berkeley.
Powers said 13 individuals were on the fourth-floor overhang when it caved in.
The casualties were for the most part Irish understudies who were living briefly in the US as a major aspect of a work trade program.
A starting examination found that the gallery bolster's wooden shafts might not have been fixed legitimately at the season of development, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said.
"More than likely, it was created by downpour and water harm," Mr Bates said.
The casualties
Ashley Donohoe, 22
Olivia Burke, 21
Eoghan Culligan, 21
Niccolai Schuster, 21
Lorcan Miller, 21
Eimear Walsh, 21
Read more: Tributes to Berkeley overhang casualties
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On the other hand, he later focused on that this was not an official conclusion and that an examination was still under way.
Building reviewers likewise requested that two different overhangs at the Library Gardens condo building be decimated, saying they were hazardous and could crumple.
A previous city official acquainted with the flat complex told the San Francisco Chronicle that the 5ft by 10ft (1.5m by 3m) overhang was "enriching" and not intended to hold an extensive number of individuals.
"This was implied just to be a spot where somebody could emerge for bit," Carrie Olson told the daily paper. "Not for something like 13 individuals."
Individuals left blossoms and different tributes at the scene on Wednesday as banners on both sides of the Atlantic flew at half-pole.
A commemoration administration was anticipated Wednesday evening in close-by Oakland, with casualties' relatives going from the Irish Republic to California.
Then, numerous in the Irish Republic and the US scrutinized scope of the story in the New York Times, blaming the daily paper for "casualty faulting".
The daily paper composed a tale about the work-visa program that a portion of the casualties were on, saying "a progression of prominent scenes including tanked celebrating and the destroying of lofts".
The daily paper's open supervisor said in a blog that a number of the protests were legitimate. New York Times representative Eileen Murphy said in an email: "It was never our aim to be faulted the casualties and we apologize if the piece left that impression."
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