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Awful. Kaiser are you okay?
The video is truly horrifying. Whole multi-floor buildings sucking into the ground.
Mexico City is built on a drained lake. It is terrible ground during an earthquake, as it tends to liquefy. That's why the buildings were sinking. There was a bigger quake in the mid 1980s that caused something like 10,000 deaths there.
caw
Mexico City had an earthquake drill two hours earlier. They have one every year on the anniversary of the 85 quake. This quake was 32 years and ~6 hours after the 85 quake.1985. The death toll has never been clarified because of the magnitude of the disaster. This happened before building regulations, special relief agencies and public information about earthquake protection. In fact, those things started in Mexico because of the 1985 earthquake.
And it happened on the same day.
My God. Now it's 42 buildings that fell. Over 200 dead. This is terrible.
It never stops. It is possible the 8.1 quake transferred stress to this area....
The Ring of Fire is twitching again.
Mexico City is built on a drained lake. It is terrible ground during an earthquake, as it tends to liquefy. That's why the buildings were sinking. There was a bigger quake in the mid 1980s that caused something like 10,000 deaths there.
caw
It never stops. It is possible the 8.1 quake transferred stress to this area.