The Modern Megacity · event 12 of 13

19 September 2017

The second earthquake. A magnitude 7.1 quake strikes thirty-two years to the day after 1985, and hours after the annual commemorative drill. Around 370 people die.

The The Modern Megacity era

  1. 1929
  2. 1934
  3. 1940
  4. 1952
  5. 1956
  6. 2 October 1968
  7. 1978
  8. 19 September 1985
  9. 1997
  10. 2000
  11. 2016
  12. 19 September 2017
  13. 2024

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