At least 1 dead, 10 missing in landslide near Mexico City

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Source: AP

By MARÍA VERZA

TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — Rescuers planned to resume the search Saturday for victims of a landslide that brought tons of massive boulders down on a steep hillside neighborhood outside Mexico City, killing at least one person and leaving 10 missing.

The operation is complicated by the sheer size of the rocks that cleaved from the peak known as Chiquihuite Friday afternoon, the narrow paths of the neighborhood largely inaccessible to heavy machinery and the worrisome instability of the exposed mountain face looming above.

The landslide in Tlalnepantla in Mexico state followed days of heavy rain in central Mexico and a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Tuesday in Acapulco that swayed buildings 200 miles away in the capital. Mexico state Gov. Alfredo del Mazo said Friday night that both factors likely contributed to the slide.

Neighborhood residents immediately started to dig for their neighbors Friday. They formed lines across the towering debris pile, passing 5-gallon buckets of debris and individual rocks down.



Boulders that plunged from a mountainside rests among homes in Tlalnepantla, on the outskirts of Mexico City, when a mountain gave way on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. A section of mountain on the outskirts of Mexico City gave way Friday, plunging rocks the size of small homes onto a densely populated neighborhood and leaving at least one person dead and 10 others missing. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)


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[BumRushDaShow]

1. I remember being on vacation in Mexico City & Acapulco in 1989

4 years after Mexico City had their terrible 1985 earthquake and they still had a lot of damaged buildings across the city. While we were in Mexico, we actually experienced the Cat 1 Hurricane Cosme that hit right near Acapulco, and flooded out many on the other side of the cliff range that abuts that city. So I know anyone in the area impacted by this latest earthquake, despite it being as far away away from Mexico City as it was, but was also exacerbated by the rain, will be in for a long recovery.

[Mickju]

3. I experienced a 7.5 in Mexico City in 1957.

My brother and I were visiting our aunt who was living there at the time. Her house was fine, but a house on the next street collapsed as well as many theaters. It felt extremely violent. It was in the middle of the night so we were asleep but were awakened, of course. I was 13 so I thought it was exciting and wasn't afraid. Later I lived in Los Angeles and after that Honolulu. I experienced earthquakes in both places, but was more frightened than when I was 13. It's just that when they start you don't know how severe they are going to be.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Here in Philly

we were hundreds of miles away from that earthquake in Virginia in 2011. And although the only other one that I was aware of in my lifetime was some tiny tremor in the early '70s in the middle of the night strong enough to rattle a spoon in a glass on my bed table (and we do have an old old but somewhat active fault near me), that 5.8 quake radiated up the east coast and sent my work building shaking back and forth, which was a weird feeling. I.e., it wasn't rolling or vibrating but was literally swaying in a N/S orientation, and you could hear the walls creaking as it did that.

Definitely not something I want to have to deal with again, especially in the old building I was working in at the time.

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