MEXICO EARTHQUAKE

MEXICO EARTHQUAKE

Every time i think there is an earth tremor, something inside me panics. “ that’s Maria speaking her experience of the earthquake that devastated part of Mexico city still affects her very deeply. “ you have no idea what it means to realize the ground under your feet is not solid. Even now I think the ground is moving in fact it’s me being unable to keep my balance” that’s called the “phantom quake effect” which people in Mexico and San Francisco(California) know very well.
Maria lives on the ground floor of a spacious villa she’s been lucky. She has a home and she says she will never again live above ground-level. Here previous flacon the eighth floor has been declared unsafe, it survive the earth quake, but occupants were only allowed back in, one at a time and at their own risk to try and find their personal things. Other people only have temporary houses. They live in wooden cabins constructed by the government near the ruins of their former houses.
Liz is English and has lived in the south of Mexico for several years. The south wasn’t badly effected for the first few seconds; the intensity of the tremor was nothing unusual. But even she felt the earth moving “I was taking a cup of coffee which started shaking” she said.
The earth quake added horribly to the problems of Mexico City with the fall in oil prices the world crisis and then the earthquake. Mexico’s social and economic problems threatened to sink the country.
Immense urban poverty, enormous debts, high level of pollution all seems to make Mexico city an impossible place to live in. what saves it is the charm and courage of its people.