Many Still Without a Home One Year After Mexico Earthquake

A year on from a devastating earthquake that struck Mexico City and killed dozens of people, hundreds of buildings are still uninhabitable and many of their former residents remain homeless.

A Mexican flag with a sign that says “thanks to you” on Sept. 19, 2018 on a building in Multifamiliar Tlalpan, a housing development south of Mexico City, which sustained a lot of damage during the 2017 Mexico earthquake. Tim MacFarlan/Special to The Epoch Times

MEXICO CITY—A year on from a devastating earthquake that struck Mexico City and killed dozens of people, hundreds of buildings are still uninhabitable and many of their former residents remain homeless.

At 1.14 p.m. on Sept. 19, 2017, the anniversary of another devastating quake in 1985 that claimed tens of thousands of lives in Mexico City, a 7.1 magnitude tremor shook the center of the country, killing about 370 people.