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| Earthquake Evacuation at La Raza Hospital, Mexico City (March, 2013) |
This past Sunday, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake once again rocked the capital region. I remember a year ago being in DF when an even stronger 7.2 earthquake brought the Mexican capital to a standstill for an hour or more. I had just arrived back in town from a day trip to the town of Texcoco. While on the metro, the earthquake hit causing most businesses to temporarily close and evacuate employees and customers outside into the streets and courtyards. Never having experienced before an earthquake of this magnitude, it was certainly one of my scarier travel moments. Luckily, an hour or so later, life seemed more or less back to normal with the city having suffered minimal damage. However, I do remember walking down Madero Street later in the day looking at cracks in buildings caused by the earthquake. As there is a serious history of earthquakes in this area, Chapingos take such events very seriously.
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