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The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximal Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people.
On the same exact date 32 years ago, a massive earthquake hit western Mexico, badly damaging the bustling city and killing thousands of people.
The worst earthquake disaster in modern Mexican history occurred thirty years ago this week. On Thursday 19 September 1985 a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck at 7:19 a.m. and lasted a full two minutes. It was followed by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake 36 hours later.
Rescue workers and volunteers sift through the rubble of a collapsed building in "Zona Rosa" area of Mexico City, Sept. 21, 1985, after an earthquake leveled parts of the city.
The Mexico City earthquake was the most catastrophic in the country's history. More than 10,000 people were killed, 30,000 were injured, and large parts of the city were destroyed. About...
On the morning of September 19, 1985, an 8.1-magnitude earthquake hit the western states of Mexico and including Mexico City. Western Mexico is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes with the Pacific plate and Cocos plate moving against the North American plate actively.
The powerful earthquake that killed at least 7,000 people here in September was, in effect, a deadly test in nature's real and very brutal laboratory. And it has yielded important lessons in...