2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A new video revealed of the earthquake that hit Mexico on September 19 shows how the sculpture called "La Esperanza" and one of the crosses of the bell towers of the Cathedral of Mexico City collapse to the ground.
The shocking images reveal what was happening in the iconic Plaza del Zócalo at the precise moment when the sirens that alert the community to an earthquake begin to sound.
The image captures a group of workers setting up a stage and as soon as the seismic alarm is heard, people descend from the platforms in search of refuge. Behind the structure you can see the Metropolitan Cathedral, reeling from the movement of the earth.
At one point in the video, the sculpture called La Esperanza, which rested on top of the central vault of the church, completely collapses crashing to the floor. The artistic piece was placed in 1812 by the architect Manuel Tolsá, along with his sister sculptures La Fe and La Caridad, which survived the catastrophe.
Immediately after the sculpture's fall, the cross at the top of the right bell tower also collapses, then wobble intensely on its axis.
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale that experienced central Mexico left 370 people dead and more than 6,000 more were injured in the quake. The telluric movement occurred exactly on the day that 37 years of the 1985 earthquake commemorating the deaths of more than 5,000 people.
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