Word: orizaba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardest hit were the villages and small towns near Mexico's highest peak, the 18,700-ft. Orizaba volcano. In Veladero, a village of 2,000 people, only 20 of its 280 houses were left standing. In Orizaba, an industrial town near Veracruz, a three-story building was split in two, killing 19 people. Village after village offered the same vision of destruction and tragedy: young and old sifting through piles of adobe rubble, looking for something to salvage; men balancing wooden coffins on their heads, on the way to pick up their dead...