mexico 1985 earthquake

Reconstruction of the building of the Ministry of Communications and Transport.
He has never known the exact number of victims due to the censorship imposed by the government of Miguel de la Madrid.7 International aid was rejected at first by the president, and is even known that a plane with humanitarian aid of Caritas International overflying the airspace of the International Airport of Mexico City because he was not given permission to land. By order of the first lady, the plane and managed to get international aid to the city to support the Mexican rescue teams, given the magnitude of the disaster, at that time were not overwhelmed. After this incident was that the Federal Government decided to accept international assistance to see surpassed its response capability to such a catastrophe years later made the following findings in this regard:
• Deaths: the government reported the deaths of between 6 and 7 000 people and even got to assume that the final amount was 10 thousand. However, years after the opening of information from various government sources, the record was calculated to be approximately 35 000 dead but there are sources that say that the figure exceeded 40 mil.4 The ballpark Social Security was used to accommodate and recognized bodies. They used ice to slow decomposition of bodies.
• People rescued alive from the rubble were approximately more than 4 mil.8 There were people who were rescued alive from the landslides until ten days after the occurrence of the first sismo.9
• The number of structures destroyed in its entirety was approximately 30 000 and those with partial damage mil.8 68
• The Latin American Tower was an exceptional case because this earthquake engineering not harmed alguno.10
• Among the most emblematic buildings collapsed or partially destroyed during the earthquake were:
o The building of the Joint Urban Nuevo León Nonoalco Tlatelolco
o Buildings A1, B2 and C3 of the Multi-Juarez
or Televicentro (now Televisa Chapultepec)
o Televiteatros (now Centro Cultural Telmex)
o One of the Torres del Conjunto Pino Suárez more than twenty floors that housed government offices (now Commercial Plaza Pino Suárez)
o Regis luxury hotels (now Plaza de la Solidaridad), Carlo D'Prado and located in the area of the Central Alameda
or number of sewing factories in San Antonio Abad (which killed many seamstresses)
• Also include hospitals such as the Juarez Hospital, General Hospital and National Medical Center where rescue came just over 2,000 people despite the collapse that trapped both staff and patients who were in them.
• It is notable that in hospitals collapsed, part of the newborn, some of them in an incubator-rescue was achieved. In particular three infants (two girls and one boy) who were rescued from the rubble of the Juarez Hospital seven days after the earthquake. Those babies were actually known as "The Children / Baby Miracle" or "The Miracle of the Hospital Juárez", the reason for this nickname was that in the seven days they were under the rubble, the babies were all alone, there was no one to give them to eat or drink, no one to give them cover and heat, and despite having everything against them, the three left alive. It is recalled that at the time to rescue the first child (a girl), all the rescuers and workers stopped and even turned off all machinery awaiting the baby's crying, which came moments later, confirming that he was alive.
• As a result, twelve of the multifamily buildings of the urban and nine Nonoalco Multi Tlatelolco Juarez had to be demolished, in the six months were demolished over 152 buildings across the city. We collected two million 388 000 144 m³ of rubble to clear only 103 routes prioritized withdrew one million 500 thousand tons of debris (110 000 600 dump truck trips) 8
• More than one million electricity users were without service, and the three-day event had been restored only 38% of it. Among the damage to this service include transformers 1.300, 5 lines, 8 poles and 600 substations luz.8
• The Metro Public Transport System was affected in 32 seasons. Most service resumed on subsequent days of that month, however the station Isabella did not do so until 4 November that año.8
• The bus service from the old "Route 100" operated freely in time recovery of the city.
• The telephone service of the then state-owned Telmex was free until its privatization in the 90s.
• Health alerts were fired, one of the most transcendent presence of blood (from the quake victims) in samples of drinking water in the entire city network.
• There were water shortages as a result of several faults in the South East Aqueduct with 28 fractures, the primary network 167 and the secondary leakage in 7000 affected 229 fugas.8 drainage: Río La Piedad, 6000 500 meters affected, in lesser extent, the Rio Churubusco. Leaks from the port 9 to the Issuer 14 Central and 300 meters from the Central Interceptor Poniente.8
• More than 516 000 m² of asphalt streets were affected by fractures, cracks and subsidence (equivalent to over 80 kilometers of a road from one lane). The old tram rails in the Colonia Roma, they left the tarmac. Also affected were destroyed and more than 85 thousand square meters of sidewalks (about size 12 tennis area the size of the Estadio Azteca), plus their respective fittings (37 000 744 m) 0.8
• There was no external communication via phone because its structure was severely damaged. It was not until March 1986 that was restored to full service domestic and international long distance. Because of this, the number of telegrams and telex added 685 000 466, while those reported by radio and television were over 39 mil.8
• The number of jobs lost by the earthquake is estimated at between 150 and 200 mil.8
• It creates the civil group "Rescue Brigade Topos Tlatelolco" rescue group that has aided the people even internationally arriving today to take part in the rescue of the Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004, a phenomenon that generated a tsunami tidal wave known as Haiti and the 2010 earthquake.