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Mexico City’s air pollution

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Mexican cartels threatening tourism in Cancun | Unreported World

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Mexico city’s history

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NASA-Produced Damage Maps May Aid Mexico Quake Response

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A new NASA-produced map of areas likely damaged by the Sept. 19 magnitude 7.1 Raboso earthquake near Mexico City may help responders and groups supporting response efforts.

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By DipNote Bloggers on September 21, 2017

On September 19, 2017 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, the State of Puebla and surrounding areas causing widespread destruction, injuries, and loss of life. As of September 21, there are at least 40 reported collapsed structures, including two schools. Media reports estimate the death toll at 225, but the total is likely to rise given the population density of the affected areas.

During a press availability on the margins of the 72 nd UN General Assembly Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a moment to extend condolences to those who have suffered and continue to suffer, from the devastation caused by the natural disasters we have seen around the Western Hemisphere.

Speaking directly to the people of Mexico, Secretary Tillerson affirmed that the United States stands with them in the aftermath of two very bad and massive earthquakes. The Secretary shared, "The President did speak to President Pena Nieto earlier today, expressed his own deep concerns about the situation, also indicated though his immediate deployment of assistance to Mexico City of search and rescue expertise, a team - very large team - of people who are trained for these specific type of circumstances. Immediately he deployed those towards Mexico City with heavy equipment. President Pena Nieto obviously thanked the President for that, said he welcomed and accepted that assistance."

.@POTUS sends @USAID elite disaster team in response to #MexicoEarthquake to help with humanitarian relief. Team includes @LACo_FD members. pic.twitter.com/rNieYd5Waa
- Dana W. White - DoD (@ChiefPentSpox) September 21, 2017

The search and rescue team President Trump referenced in his conversation with Mexican President Nieto was deployed to Mexico by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on September 20, 2017 in response to urgent humanitarian needs caused by the earthquake. The USAID Disaster Response Team (DART) -- an elite team of disaster experts from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance and an urban search-and-rescue team from the Los Angeles County Fire Department -- will support the Government of Mexico by conducting damage assessments and coordinating with local authorities and aid groups to bring critical assistance to local people.

Secretary Tillerson noted President Trump assured Mexican President Nieto that there are other ways in which the United States can help and underscored that the United States stands ready to help the Mexican government and people in any way we can. "This, I think, is a real testament to the relationship between the United States and Mexico," he said.

LANDED: Elite @USAID #mexicoearthquake disaster team incl >60 @LACo_FD #USAR members+5 canines. Their job: rescue survivors + assess damage pic.twitter.com/ul6rUtEZRi
- USAID/OFDA (@theOFDA) September 21, 2017

The Department of State continues to offer support and assistance to U.S. citizens who are affected by these earthquakes. U.S. citizens in the area should monitor local news reports, follow directions from local officials, and contact their loved ones. For U.S. citizens facing emergencies, please contact the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City by calling 011-52-55-5080-2000. Please note, when in Mexico, you dial 55-5080-2000.

U.S. citizens may also contact the International Red Cross to help locate missing or injured family members at 844-782-9441 or use the International Reconnecting Families Inquiry Form.

To stay informed, U.S. citizens should monitor the Department's Travel website for emergency alerts and stay tuned to the latest information on safety and security messages by visiting the U.S. Embassy website.

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United States Stands with Mexico in the Aftermath of Recent Earthquakes

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By DipNote Bloggers on September 21, 2017 On September 19, 2017 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, the State of Puebla and surrounding areas causing widespread destruction, injuries, and loss of life. As of September 21, there are at least 40 reported collapsed structures, including two schools.

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MEXICO CITY - The buildings shuddered and rocked in the strongest earthquake in this city's modern history, and yet they remained upright. Then, exactly 32 years later, they crumpled in seconds, killing 228 people.

A popular myth had evolved about those buildings that withstood the devastation three decades ago while vast parts of the city were leveled: a belief that their survival then might ensure their resilience when the earth next heaved.

That myth crumbled last month: Most of the buildings that gave way when a 7.1-magnitude quake struck Mexico City on Sept. 19 were built before 1985. And the destruction did not discriminate. The buildings that fell crossed classes and neighborhoods, burying accountants and garment workers in commercial buildings, children at a private school and residents of both a housing project and an apartment building on one of the city's most desirable streets.

Now, their collapse has given new voice to experts who have long warned that the city must reinforce its structures to prepare for future stronger earthquakes. This time, they hope the disaster might bend the government's political will toward a plan - and a way to pay for it.

"We don't just want pieces of paper," said Arturo Tena Colunga, a structural engineer at the Metropolitan Autonomous University Azcapotzalco who studies how to strengthen buildings against seismic shocks. "This is a moment of opportunity, an inflection point for Mexican society."

After walking through the sites of collapse in the days after the earthquake, he was deeply frustrated. "Society is always thinking about saving money," he said. But for "buildings in an earthquake zone, cheaper is always more expensive" when an earthquake hits.

Much has improved since 1985, when an earthquake here killed at least 10,000 people. The city has repeatedly strengthened its building codes, and updated rules reached Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera's desk the day before the most recent temblor.

But owners of older private buildings are not required to retrofit the construction to meet the new rules. And because every earthquake is unique, buildings respond differently each time.

"One of the lessons we need to learn is that we can never say that a particular building is safe," said Sergio Alcocer, a structural engineer at the Institute of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "We need to cover all the possibilities for earthquakes coming from all types of places."

Most earthquakes that affect Mexico City occur off the Pacific Coast, including the 8.1 earthquake on Sept. 19, 1985, that was centered about 215 miles west of the capital. Parts of the city lie on the sand and clay of an ancient lake bed, a geology that amplifies the shock waves from these distant epicenters.

The damage then was concentrated in the city's central districts, leading to a widespread belief that other parts of the city would be spared in future shocks.

Last month's temblor was atypical, because the epicenter was just 75 miles south of the city. Sections of the city's south that had stood up well in 1985 bore the earthquake's full force this time, and it was largely older buildings made of brittle concrete that collapsed, said H. Kit Miyamoto, a California seismic safety commissioner who visited Mexico after the recent quake.

The damage this time was limited because the earthquake was weaker than the 1985 quake and was quite deep, he said. But a closer, shallower temblor could cause 100 times more devastation.

"This is a warning not only to Mexico City, but a warning to L.A., San Francisco, San Diego, Tokyo, everywhere," said Dr. Miyamoto, a structural engineer. In all of these cities, older structures of brittle concrete are vulnerable to a strong earthquake.

Los Angeles has moved toward mandatory retrofitting for the buildings most at risk - older concrete structures and those with a "soft story," an open ground floor used for parking or a store front.

"L.A. is doing it right now as we speak," Dr. Miyamoto said, estimating that 13,000 "soft-story" apartment buildings are affected by a recent city ordinance. "It's definitely feasible to do this. It's not as expensive as people think."

"Businesses need to understand that seismic strengthening can be good business," he added.

After the 1985 earthquake, Mexico City did retrofit schools, public buildings and a few of the largest private offices. Most of those buildings appear to have held up well this time, Dr. Alcocer said.

For the owners of other private buildings, though, the decision was largely voluntary - unless they changed the structure's use by converting apartments to offices, for example.

"This earthquake made us realize that there are many buildings that haven't been brought up to date," said Edgar Tapia Hernández, a structural engineer who is also at the Metropolitan Autonomous University Azcapotzalco.

It is likely that many of the structures that collapsed this time were never retrofitted, Dr. Tena Colunga said, including a 1983 building at the private Enrique Rébsamen school, where 19 students and seven adults were killed.

The image of the pancaked school building framed by a halo of wooden beams wedged in the concrete to brace it now haunts the city. Last week, officials uncovered a paper trail showing repeated building violations by the school's owner, which resulted in only minor penalties.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the delegate for the Tlalpan District, where the school is located, filed a criminal complaint last week over the collapse. The complaint asked the city prosecutor to investigate why unauthorized construction on the building's third and fourth floors was allowed. Another city agency had already accused the school's owner of submitting a false zoning permit.

The owner has not appeared in public for more than a week and the lawyer representing her did not respond to a telephone call.

But even where there are no accusations of wrongdoing, the cluster of dots on the city's maps marking fallen and ruined structures suggests how much work is needed. Mr. Mancera, the mayor, said Thursday that in addition to the 38 buildings that collapsed, 800 to 1,000 others sustained serious structural damage, although that figure could still rise.

Engineers have already identified common features among those that fell, including the ground-floor "soft story." Corner buildings also proved particularly vulnerable.

Such insights, combined with the knowledge that experts now have about the seismic zones underlying the city, make it possible to begin identifying the structures that are most at risk.

Dr. Tena Colunga said he would like to see mandatory reviews of buildings with more than 100 occupants. Building materials degrade over time, he said, like a paper clip that is bent and unbent repeatedly until it finally snaps.

"For every peso that you spend on retrofits, you are saving seven pesos later on," he added.

But the local left-wing assembly may balk at anything that sounds too authoritarian. And there is a question of money.

"You need an ordinance" and a way to make such reviews economically viable for poorer residents, Dr. Alcocer said. To convince building owners to pay for retrofits, "you have to be very reasonable in time and economic incentives."

"I don't know politically how much this program would move" forward, he said.

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In Mexico City, Pressure to Prepare for the Next Big Earthquake

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On a bad day, you cannot see forever in Mexico City.

That's how it has been lately, ever since the city government rang the alarm bells over its air pollution, as it surpassed the recommended ozone limits set by the World Health Organization. It was the first time such alarms went off in more than a decade. The city banned cars, old and new, from roads once a week, along with other measures that will continue until June and perhaps longer.

It all raises the question: Will Mexico City risk the gains it made in the 1990s and return to its image as a pollution-choked city?

It's a question that especially worries Catalina Guardado, who works at a nursery school in Mexico City. Like many other schools and nurseries here, it was shut down for a day in April, when ozone levels hit emergency levels. After it reopened, kids were kept indoors for days.

"We kept the windows and doors closed," she says. The kids went stir crazy, but better that than risking their still-developing lungs.

What's happening? Air quality has generally improved in Mexico's capital over the last 20 years or so. Back then, locals used to say that living here was like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. Memories are also fresh from the 1980s, when the air was particularly bad.

"We saw birds that suddenly fell down. They fell out of the sky and they were dead," says Gabriela Alarcón, who researches pollution at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, a think-tank in Mexico City.

Since then, officials have pushed out big refineries, banned leaded gas, and built more public transportation. It all made a difference, for a while. But now things seem to be backsliding. By this time last year, 75 percent of the days had been considered bad air days. So far this year, it's more than 80 percent.

Yet despite those improvements, Mexico City's population continues to grow, up roughly 10 percent over the last decade, to more than 21 million. Most new residents live on the outskirts, and Alarcón says more sprawl, means "longer trips with more people driving cars."

About 200,000 more cars are on the road every year here, according to the city. Many are new and cleaner (Mexico is a major car-making country and dealers offer consumers a raft of attractive financing options). But plenty of cars are still dirty, and smog checks can be avoided with bribes.

Alarcón also adds that many people who do not own cars rely on old, smoke-spewing buses.

She says a lot of people agree on what's needed: "The best bet is to increase the quality and quantity of public transportation," she says.

However, where there is cleaner and better public transportation, people pack in to use it, and the system is overwhelmed. Yet plans for new buses and subways in Mexico City are lagging. For now, the city is doubling down on a program that takes cars off the road once a week. (The ban does not apply to certain vehicles, including electric and hybrid cars, of which there are still very few in Mexico). Alarcón says that plan, known as Hoy No Circula ("No Driving Today") is just a Band-Aid, and what's really needed is more money and stronger political leadership.

City officials acknowledge that they're having trouble keeping up with the air pollution problem. But they also say it needs to be put in context. "For example, China, there's a huge difference between 100 parts per billion of ozone [in Mexico City] and 350 or 400 [in China]," says Tanya Müller García, Mexico City's environment minister. She says Mexico City is doing better than many of the world's megacities, and points out an important difference here from years past. "We've strengthened the levels at which we say we have bad air quality," she says.

In other words, standards have tightened. Pollution alarms go off sooner here now than they used to, so what's considered a bad air day now isn't necessarily the same as a bad air day years ago.

That's partly because we've learned a lot since the 80s about how air pollution can harm people. Someone who thinks about this - and studies what exactly fills the air here - is Michel Grutter de la Mora. He runs a large monitoring station in the southern part of the city, located at the Center of Atmospheric Studies, part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

On the center's roof, where several instruments are set up, there is a 360-degree view of the city. On a clear day, you can see the Popocatépetl volcano, about 50 miles southeast. On a recent afternoon, the smog was heavy, and you could see only the volcano's snow-covered top.

Grutter says ozone pollution can be very dangerous, but what he worries about most is something else: "The smaller particles, like benzene," which can be carcinogenic, he says.

Small particles, or particulates, are a complex group of air pollutants that share a key feature. "They are sufficiently small that they reach our lungs and can be inserted into the blood stream," Grutter says.

And when it comes to those smaller particles, we know now what we weren't sure about a few decades ago.

Long-term exposure to small particles can make asthma worse, hurt kids' cognitive and emotional development, even cause premature death. But Grutter also says Mexico City's new air pollution crisis has an upside. He has noticed that public consciousness is up.

It's definitely on the mind of Guardado, at the nursery school. She says that when the air was particularly bad, she worried about the kids and noticed they all seemed to have flu symptoms. "There were runny noses, headaches," she says.

But the culprit was unclear. Was it the flu or the air? If it was the air, she says, she wants more done about it, not just some cars taken off the streets until the rainy season comes and the air gets better - for a while.
Correction: An earlier version of this story quoted Michel Grutter de la Mora of the Center of Atmospheric Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as saying that toluene, often a component of particulate air pollution, is carcinogenic. The US EPA, US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and International Agency for Research on Cancer have all determined that there's insufficient evidence to classify toluene as carcinogenic.

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