The Worst Natural Disasters in Mexico

Climate change is one of the recurring themes today. The phenomenon is undoubtedly the result of several centuries of human activity, mainly from the processing and exploitation of natural resources on which their depletion is never anticipated, nor the impact that would cause environmental imbalance.

From the 70's and as a prelude to the disasters to come, in different cities around the world began to appreciate the phenomenon of air pollution, leading some countries to warn about the need to reduce pollutants discharged gases into the atmosphere, called that very few listened.

In Mexico, the ravages of global warming and environmental imbalance has been evident for several decades. The worst natural disasters begin to register with seismic and climatic events. On September 19, 1985, the City of Mexico in particular, experienced a disaster that marked the country's history, thousands of people died under the rubble of dozens of buildings due to a first tremor of 8.1 degrees on the Richter scale , and a replica of lower intensity the next day.

In 1988, almost three years later, Hurricane Gilbert slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast, causing damage mainly in the Yucatan. The hurricane destroyed more than 50% of beaches running with services and infrastructure.

In 1995, Hurricane Henriette made landfall in Sinaloa Cabo San Lucas, forcing the intervention of the units of the Secretariat of National Defense to provide assistance to victims, and in the same year Hurricane Ismael touched port in Topolobampo. In the same year in October, the country experienced an earthquake off the coast of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Jalisco and Colima. In September 1997.The same areas of Oaxaca and Acapulco felt the brunt of Hurricane Paulina.

In the sense of the costs incurred by natural disasters, according to the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions and the compensation that insurers have had to make, the following is a list of the costliest disasters:

1 .- Hurricane Wilma (2005) 1.752 million dollars

2 .- Floods in Tabasco (2007) 700 mdd

3 .- Hurricane Gilbert (1997) 567 mdd

4 .- Earthquake DF (1985) 473 mdd

5 .- Hurricane Isidore (2002) 308 mdd

6 .- Hurricane Emily (2005) 302 mdd

7 .- Hurricane Stan (2005) 228 mdd

8 .- Hurricane Kenna (2002) 176 mdd

9 .- Hurricane Juliette (2001) $ 90m

10 .- Hurricane Pauline (1997) 62 mdd