Hotel Regis Mexico City 1985

Workers amid the post quake rubble in 1985.

Hotel regis mexico city 1985. Top a collapsed building in the 1985 mexico city earthquake. Hard hats and candles at a memorial plaque for victims of the 1985 earthquake. Regis mexico city is a welcoming sanctuary within one of the most expansive cities in the world. Mexico city in chaos.

The collapsed regis hotel in downtown mexico city. Mexico s president was miguel de la madrid champion of a failed moral renewal campaign and the city s mayor was ramón aguirre velázquez a man close to the president and a candidate to succeed him. By mid afternoon live tv pictures from mexico city showed the collapsed ruins of the 230 room hotel regis. An old undated postcard that shows the hotel regis which was located near parque la alameda in mexico city.

Standing proudly alongside the tree lined paseo de la reforma the st. Mexico city many things changed after the devastating september 19 1985 earthquake measuring 8 1 on the richter scale struck mexico city. El 19 de septiembre de 1985 podemos decir que la vida se detuvo por unos segundos con el tremendo terremoto que pasó en la ciudad de méxico. 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.

Hotel regis after 1985 earthquake in mexico city. Derrick ceyrac afp getty images 4 13. The ruins of hotel regis in mexico city after the 1985 temblor. The sequence of events included a foreshock of magnitude 5 2 that occurred the prior may the main shock on 19.

Agence france presse file bottom. The hotel was destroyed in the great earthquake on september 19 1985 which resulted many deaths at the hotel. Geological survey center. Updated september 09 2017 10 30 34 the hotel regis in mexico city collapsing after the 1985 earthquake.

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