The Day the Earth Shook Mexico_Rodrigo

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EARTH SHOOK MEXICO By Rodrigo


Contents Dedication......................................1 About The Author......................2 Narrative.......................................3­4 Foreword........................................5 Packet.............................................6­7 Interview Notes.........................8­9 Bibliography.................................10


ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rodrigo Reyes Retana is 13 years old, born in September 19, 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico. He has lived 7 years in Mexico, where his whole family live,and left at the age of 8 to Europe. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. He was inspired to write about the Mexican earthquake in 1985 since his whole


Dedication I dedicated this historical narrative to my mom since I remember her telling me this story when i was younger so I want her to see the way I saw the story she told me. I also dedicated this to her because she helped me finish this narrative and make it good.


I picked up my bag as a cloud of chatter from my friends and the splashing of the water inside the shower began to fill the room while I looked outside the window, only to meet with the orange sun, peeking out from the horizon, revealing the camp around us. I started making my bed with feet dangling next to me from the bunk bed above my bed. I waited for my other friends to finish their work, but the suddenly, the ground felt shaky. Girls began to scream with shock and fright meanwhile the hanging lamps swung, side­to­side. Dropping everything, I stood still as I felt the whole room shake violently; lamps swinging, beds tap dancing on the spot, windows seconds before bursting. Those minutes felt like hours. The whole place shook like it was in a blender at full speed. My legs, glued to the ground, trying to keep myself from


falling. I could feel the quake soften a little after a few moments of waiting on the shaking ground. “I think it’s done,” A roommate commented, walking away from the wall she was standing against. Nothing seemed to have fallen since most of us grabbed on to the things that could have broken during the quake. I gained my control back and picked my bag back up. I headed towards a radio which sat on a desk next to the beds, followed by my other friends, shock still painted on their faces, and to be honest, I had a small stain of fear in me. After a while, someone turned on the radio and heard that there were fallen buildings in the city, there were no telephone lines, and emergency services were collapsed. I didn’t know how my family was and won’t be able to know until we get back home from this trip.


Foreword 1985, the residents of Mexico were shot out of bed at 7:18 in the morning by an earthquake of 8.1 on the Richter scale, which was one of the strongest that have hit that area. The effect of the quake was highly destructive since, where the city is placed is on a plateau surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. Lakes covered the plateau region in ancient times, I has been found out that the city sits on top of a mixture of sand and dirt that is much less stable than bedrock, which can be very evaporative during an earthquake.




Interview Notes Donde estabas durante el terremoto? [Estaba en un campamento, cerca de México, en mi cuarto. Era un viaje del colegio que fuimos el dia anterior del terremoto. Nosotras estábamos preparándonos para salir del cuarto a desayunar.] Que paso durante el terremoto? Cuando estaba pasando, algunas niñas empezaron a gritar y estábamos quietas mientras los candelabros se movían. Después de eso, nos fuimos a desayunar tranquilamente porque Al cabo de un rato, alguien encendió el radio y empezamos a oír que los edificios en la ciudad se había caído, que no había líneas telefónicas, que los servicios de emergencia estaban colapsados ​ ... Empezamos a escuchar ​ noticias todo el tiempo. Estábamos en ese viaje todo el fin de semana y no había cambios; Pero estábamos muy asustados porque sólo escuchamos las noticias; No sabíamos cómo estaban nuestros padres porque no había manera de contactarlos. No podían llamarles a sus padres? Sólo había un teléfono y todo lo que hicieron fue informar a nuestros padres que estábamos todos bien. Pero no podían decirnos desde la ciudad que estaban bien. No sabíamos cómo estaban nuestros padres o hermanos.


Translation: Where were during the earthquake? I was in a camp near Mexico, in my room. It was a school trip we went the day before the earthquake. We were preparing to leave the room for breakfast. What happened during the earthquake? When it started, some girls started screaming while I was quiet while the chandeliers moved. After that, we went to breakfast calmly because we did not know what had happened. After a while, someone turned on the radio and started hearing that there were fallen buildings in the city, there were no telephone lines, emergency services were collapsed...We started hearing news all the time listening to the radio. We were on that trip all weekend and there were no changes; but we were very scared because we only heard the news; we did not know how our parents were because there was no way to contact them. You couldn't contact your parents? There was only one phone and all they did was inform our parents that we were all well. But they couldn’t tell us that they were fine. We did not know how our parents or brothers were.


BIBLIOGRAFY Adler, David. "The Mexico City Earthquake, 30 Years On: Have Its Lessons Been Forgotten?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 18 Sept. 2015. Web. 14 Nov. 2016. <https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/18/mexico­city­ earthquake­30­years­lessons>. "Earthquake Shakes Mexico City." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 02 Nov. 2016. <http://www.history.com/this­day­ in­history/earthquake­shakes­mexico­city>. 2015. Sin Embargo, Mexico City. Sin Embargo. Web. 21 Nov. 2016. <http://www.sinembargo.mx/19­09­2015/1488989>. 2015. Devastation in DF: the 1985 Earthquake, Mexico City. Mexico News Daily. Web. 21 Nov. 2016. <http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/devastation­in­df­the­1985­ earthquake/>.


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