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Mexico City Earthquake - Coggle Diagram
Mexico City Earthquake
Plates and Location
Subduction
of
Cocos
plate beneath the
North
American
plate
Mexico City
September 19th 1985
Epicenter in
Michoacán
200
miles from mexico city
8.0
magnitude
Impacts
30,000
injured
10,000
dead
landslides
Cracks in the ground
900
buildings
destroyed
4,000
buildings
damaged
70
%
transportation
network
blocked
100,000
left
homeless
Liquefaction
Soil
acts like a
liquid
due to it being on a old lake bed
Miguel de la Madrid
and his advisers
refused
to fully deploy the national emergency plan.
Response
relief
efforts began by locals
locals
started
freeing
neighbours
people travelled from better of areas to help the poorer communities
100,000 residences
had been
remade
over the next
two years