Each year on 19 September in the morning schools and businesses in Mexico City follow an earthquake drill. It is a yearly routine to commemorate the 1985 earthquake – which took the lives of thousands of Mexicans and knocked down over 400 buildings. But in the afternoon of 19 September 2017, there was no drill. Thirty-two years later and on the same day, a 7.1 Richter scale earthquake shook Mexico City and its neighbouring states. On 7 September, another 8.5 magnitude earthquake had hit the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca – the states with the lowest income levels in the country. Both earthquakes left an estimated toll of 500 deaths, 250,000 people deprived of a home and 12m affected across the country.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1176 words.
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