Megacities - Mexico City 2/5

Megacities - Mexico City Part 2

To Mother Nature, Mexico City is one big target. On one side: one of the world's most earthquake-prone hotspots. On the other: one of the world's most active volcanoes. And beneath their feet - a shaky foundation of landfill. From subways to freeways, this episode examines how Mexico City is harnessing cutting-edge technology to build in safety.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Megacities
• Mexico
• City
• Documentary

[Sherlock24jp]

its true mexico city is very susceptible at suffers big earthquakes because it's situate over a big lake but the city is beautiful

[macku15]

what would happen if a 50 megaton nuke blows up ur head?

[indigo4fox]

@mrpaulmarquez1 No te equivoques,se me hace muy practicas las construction en USA, segun el clima o los cambios climaticos asi son!!Hablando de concreto USA tiene diferentes calidades de concreto y segun los codigos asi se aplica y de que sirve que en muchas construcciones de Mexico sean de concreto,si la mayoria las hacen de una manera negligente y corrupcion!El concreto de Mexico es como el petroleo,lo mejor se viene para USA y lo peor se queda en Mexico!!

[mrpaulmarquez1]

@indigo4fox mentira, los estados unidos solamente hacen casas hechas de carton, que no has hido? son terribles y de baja calidad, un tornado se lleva toda la casa sin esfuerzo, en cambio en Mexico, las casas si estan echas de concreto y si sobrebirian un tornado.

[indigo4fox]

No tenemos concreto bueno,porque todo el bueno se lo vendemos USA!!

[chicoglam]

@gato123452 Yes, of course we can not make a general statement.

[gato123452]

@chicoglam well your kinda right but bad engineering could have done some buildings to fall, like the Hospital it can, San Francisco's hospitals did fell neither did there stadiums.

[MRCHAIRES0582]

I WAS LIKE 3 YEARS OLD WHEN THAT EARTH QUAKE STRIKE AND TILL THIS DAY I REMEMBER THE EXACT SPOT WE TOOK SHELTER IN AND I BELIEVED THE EPICENTER WAS AT THE END OFF RIO BALSAS WHERE IT MEETS THE PACIFIC OCEAN ?? DOES ANY ONE KNOWS ??

[maniclater]

@nemesismk3 for a girl. Mexican boys are passionate and pretty damn charming..why I fell in love with one ;)

[maniclater]

@chicoglam my dad says that when he worked for the administration at the time who built a lot of buildings that fell were becuase of cutting corners. But then again thats just one mans experience. you are right though, it's not fair to state this claim on all the structures.