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Even as the massive rescue effort was under way, the capital was struck another blow. Just 36 hours after the first temblor, a second quake, though not as powerful as the first, battered Mexico City. This tremor, lasting for at least a minute, toppled some already weakened buildings but caused few new injuries. Mainly, it made the rubble bounce and rekindled fear among the city's residents, thousands of whom had spent the night in parks and other open spaces. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took note of the "panic" provoked by the second shock, but assured Mexicans that...
...deadliest earthquakes in this century have occurred in the Far East, Latin America and the Mediterranean. By far the most lethal was a temblor that devastated the city of Tangshan, China, in July 1976. While Peking later put the official death toll at 242,000, other estimates ranged as high as 750,000. The great San Francisco quake of 1906 was the most powerful in modern U.S. history; the tremor and resulting fires resulted in 700 casualties--not enough to make the list. Nor will last week's disaster in Mexico City, despite the heavy damage, unless the death total...
While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
Even so, the temblor was a vivid reminder of the terrible forces locked inside the earth. Much of the destruction came from fires, ignited by short-circuited wires and fueled by broken gas mains. Electric power was cut, the water supply was contaminated. For hours, Coalinga's people were largely isolated from the world because of severed telephone lines...
...have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey, out of prime temblor territory...