00:08“The building swayed like a hammock,” said Guillermo Salazar, a construction foreman, whose crew was working on a half-finished apartment block. Everyone escaped the structure unscathed. Salazar credited the earthquake drill two hours earlier with preventing a chaotic situation. In the years since the 1985 earthquake, a culture of prevention has been promoted by the local government. Salazar expressed mixed opinions on the city’s efforts.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2017 22:45 UTC