11. Nonoalco-Tlatelolco a human experience

On the 19th of September, 19 0b, on e x t i aordinary earthquake , i n i e Rich! er scale, shock Mex Jco City, the state of o and th e wes t coastal area on the Mexican Republic.

Ne ai 1y 3 6 hours later, another qnnkr was registered, this one of /.b in the mentioned scale.

In Mexico City the effects of the two earIhquskes caused the collapse of 412 buildings and damaged b,12b others.

After the first evaluations of the damages caused by the earth quakes, the federal Government founded the National Re const rue tion Program with federal funds and donations.