Talk:1985 Mexico City earthquake

Unverifiable
Added references to the Cocos Plate subduction zone and liquefaction. Added link to pictures at National Geophysical Data Center.

I could not verify the comments below and removed them. If the comments can be substantiated, please reinstate with citations.
 * The soft sediments of these buildings (made from mud and sand) and the negligence of some businessmen and architects of not using the adequate structures were the reasons these buildings collapsed. (I could not verify the culpability of businessmen and architects.) many people were very hurt
 * The rescue workers saved more than 4,000 lives, including newborns from the hospital.

I removed the following comment because my sources indicated it was incorrect - the epicenter was off the coast.
 * The epicenter of the quake was in Michoacán.

Dougz1 18:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Link failure
Both external links in this article return 404 errors. I don't have time to search for the new links at the moment - will try to get back soon to do it, but if someone else feels inclined to make the changes before then, feel free. Ahrie (talk) 16:30, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

2008 expansion
Please dont freak out... I put a lot of work into the rewrite of this page. Still needs work... Because I have verifiable sources for the info... I put in that the army was protecting factories and factory equipment instead of workers and that many buildings fell because of bad construction. However, I have issues with both of these assertions. For the first, my boyfriend (a Mexican who lived thru the quake) disputes the issue with the Army.. saying that while there might have been cases of this... he doubts it was widespread as the army has a fairly good reputation here. For the second... all the sources I found that push the idea of corruption causing non-compliance and shoddy construction comes from social science sources, not scientific ones. The scientific ones push the fact that it was a really unusually strong quake and more building should have fallen. Will keep looking.Thelmadatter (talk) 14:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * When done, you could always send it to Peer review for comments. Punkmorten (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Comment
Royally reworked... hard to find information in Mexico.... amazingly... had no problems getting information "everybody knew", like the destruction of the garment factory, but when it came to getting citable sources, another matter! Thelmadatter (talk) 17:05, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Reassesment
I believe this article deserves at least a C-class. I don't think it is GA or anything of the sort, but C would seem fine. Does anyone have any other comments? > RUL3R >trolling >vandalism  07:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Nature of the quake
So the article says that the quake was some distance away from Mexico City, but because the underlying ground had a 2.5-second resonant frequency, the earthquake waves were amplified significantly. Does this mean that the earthquake (as felt in Mexico City) wasn't the typical shaking and rattling but was rather a slow rolling oscillation? -Rolypolyman (talk) 15:07, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Survivors mentioned it being more like ocean waves than anything. People mentioned getting seasick. There was a good doc. about it called Great Quakes: Mexico. It goes into some detail about it. (I think it might be on youtube). 69.122.132.127 (talk) 17:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Source
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:43, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * "LOOKING BACK Quake brought destruction, killed thousands in Mexico." Houston Chronicle. October 1, 2001.

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2012 Earthquake suggestion
I think that one of the highlights of the March 20th Earthquake in Mexico was that, even that the scale was high (7.4 Richter scale) and the movement was different than 1985 earthquake, the factors of prevention helped to avoid catastrophic consecuences on this earthquake such as the measures to create more resistent buildings and the culture of prevention input since 1985 earthquake. Coincidentally, following this culture of prevention, the students of Chiapas state were out of their classrooms in a routine earthquake simulation when the real earthquake hit the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.99.166.84 (talk) 20:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Earthquacke Magnitude
Why the english version states that the magnitude was 8.0, while mexican sources state it was 8.1? -- Alfacevedoa (My Talk) 14:05 19 sep 2012 (UTC)

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"In Popular Culture" section?
V/H/S 85 (2023) just featured the earthquake and, while the ending is supernatural, I find it very on-point and poignant to create empathy for how devastating an earthquake can really be, in popular culture. I feel like there are so many earthquakes in the past few months that have killed 10s of thousands and there is not enough real awareness for what one looks like inside as it is happening.

I think some may see it as callous or disrespectful to the dead, but I personally was moved to tears at its depiction and desperation. Perhaps consider adding a section that mentions its reference? Also the notion of real-life / realistic horror (being inside a collapsing building) is notable/empathy-driving. 2601:988:180:1010:A914:D345:7309:FD11 (talk) 22:03, 12 October 2023 (UTC)