1985 Mexico Earthquake

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1985 Mexico Earthquake

• By Tomas Robles
• Period 6
• Date1/5/07

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What types of damages were there.

• Supporting Question/Subtopic 1What were some
  structural damages that were caused by the
  earthquake
• Supporting Question/Subtopic 2What were some
  other effects caused by the earthquake.
• Supporting Question/Subtopic 3what were some
  peoples personal experiences with the earthquake
  and its destruction.

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What were some structural damages caused by the
earthquake

• It was September 19,1985 when it happened it was
  the Mexico earthquake causing destruction
  throughout the country of Mexico. Many things
  were destroyed like
• a huge medical center that collapsed.
• Other buildings caught on fire
• and were destroyed immediately
• Other weaker buildings just collapsed because of
  the seismic.

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What were some structural damages caused by the
earthquake

• one of the most devastating things that happened
  was when several high raised buildings and hotels
  collapsed, killing many people who were in them
  and leaving many children orphans and others with
  no family alive at all.
• another building that collapsed was a church in
  the city of Guadalajara that collapsed during the
  earthquake and killed twenty-five people even
  though many people helped rescue the bodies that
  were buried alive in the destruction many people
  still did not make it some people suffocated in
  the dirt and others just died of hunger and
  thirst. It was considered one of Americas biggest
  disasters

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What were some structural damages caused by the
earthquake.

• A very traumatizing thing that happened during
  the earthquake was when the under-ground train
  system failed and left many people stuck in the
  trains for several hours in there they passed
  several aftershocks of 7.5 on the Richter scale
  this led to many consequences like
• People passing out
• Many people were traumatized
• Others were just so terrified and the couldn't
  even go to sleep at night.
• Others were just so traumatized they felt they
  couldn't even go to the bathroom alone
• Other people just continued to live their lives
  normal.
• It was for sure a horrible earthquake.

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What were some other effects caused by the
earthquake

• Besides structural damages there was also
  economical effects like the complete failure of
  many underinsured businesses mostly informal
  economy not huge very important businesses .After
  people lost their live hood in the earthquake
  many people hade to leave the country in search
  of a job in the United States.
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What were some other effects caused by the
earthquake

• The earthquakes magnitude was so immense that it
  created several small tsunamis that were from 3.0
  to 1 meters high and spread throughout the
  country of Mexico. Due to the effects of erosion
  and flooding there was not a lot of damage caused
  by the tsunamis.

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What were some other effects caused by the
earthquake

• The worst damage of all was philological .Many
  people lost their houses and were left with no
  families .Many families separated because they
  left to different states and countries in search
  of jobs and anew life .The worst thing of all was
  that many children were left orphans that was the
  worst philological damage .

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Peoples personal experiences with the earth quake
and its destruction

• This horrible tragic day in Mexico made many
  people feel many different things and also had
  many different experiences some felt the
  experience of losing a loved family of member and
  others felt the tragic loss all their family some
  children were even left orphans. Here is one
  persons experiences with the earthquake she went
  through the entire thing at the age of twelve
• She told me that she had never felt something so
  horrible in her entire life .It was the worst
  thing in the world she said.

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Peoples personal experiences with the earth quake
and its destruction

• What was the thing you thought when you felt the
  ground shaking?
• I thought my friend was pulling my chair back
  but then I saw everything shaking and knew it was
  not my friend but it was an earthquake.
• Did you feel fear at the time of the earthquake?
• Yes I felt fear of not knowing what would happen
  to me.
• How much of Mexico was destroyed during the
  earthquake ?
• A huge part of Mexico was destroyed I would say
  with my knowing than more than one third of the
  earthquake was destroyed.

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Peoples personal experiences with the earth quake
and its destruction

• How did it affect your life ?
• It affected my life because I thought that at
  any time it would happen again.
• Who was with you at the time of the time of the
  earthquake?
• Have you ever felt something so powerful in your
  entire life?
• No I have felt pretty strong earth quakes but
  nothing so big.
• Will this be something you will remember for the
  rest of your life?
• Yes I think I will even though it was a huge
  tragedy i will remember it for the rest my life
  because it was a huge experience.
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  (Robles,Rubicelia)

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Bibliography

• http//illuminati-news .com/graphics/MexicoCityEar
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• Interview with mom at 849pm on December 7,2006
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_Eart
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