The Modern Megacity · event 5 of 13

1956

The Torre Latinoamericana. A skyscraper is completed on soft lake clay in an earthquake zone. It survives 1957 and 1985 without structural damage.

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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