Talk:1985 Mexico City earthquake

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1985 Mexico City earthquake was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 11, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
January 29, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 13, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (destroyed building pictured), a number of infants were safely rescued from the Juárez Hospital despite being without food and water for seven days?
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 19, 2007, September 19, 2008, September 19, 2009, September 19, 2010, September 19, 2011, September 19, 2015, September 19, 2019, and September 19, 2022.
Current status: Former good article nominee

Unverifiable[edit]

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)[reply]

Link failure[edit]

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)[reply]

2008 expansion[edit]

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)[reply]

When done, you could always send it to Wikipedia:Peer review for comments. Punkmorten (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment[edit]

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)[reply]

Reassesment[edit]

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)[reply]

Nature of the quake[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]