So she shared her saliva with the baby and “prayed and prayed” to the Virgin of Guadalupe. At left, a Mexican miner hands down a miracle baby swaddled in a basket. They were in a room on the sixth floor, and she had just gone downstairs for something when the earth shook. It is a daily reminder to her, she says, of the disaster. In som… The last was in 2000 and was a sort of coming-of-age for the boys and a group “quinceanera” for the girls, all of whom were turning 15. On Thursday night, Deputy Interior Minister Fernando Perez Correa told reporters that 1,825 bodies had been recovered from the rubble of the two earthquakes that rocked Mexico on Sept. 19 and 20. They are four babies who were buried alive just hours after their birth when the Juarez Hospital in central Mexico City collapsed during the first of two killer earthquakes last week. In the Mexico City earthquake in September, 1985, a number of survivors were pulled from the rubble. At least six infants, five girls and a boy, have been pulled from the debris of two hospitals. He is impulsive and has an explosive temper, says the older man sadly. He worked for awhile at a gas station, but also at times has been “desperately unemployed,” says Leonardo. Mexico Earthquake 1985 Rescuers dig for survivors in the rubble of the Juarez Hospital in Mexico City after it callapsed in an earthquake in September, 1985. The most celebrated were the so-called miracle babies … Earthquakes are worse in mountains which of vibrate more than flat land. ''I think that is part of the answer, that a fasting baby does not lose much,'' Holden said. Doctors took one of his ribs and used that bone to rebuild his face. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The world came to know them as the "miracle babies" of Mexico City, more than a dozen infants pulled from rubble after the devastating 1985 earthquake. One fateful night in Los Angeles, and an incident between police and a man named Rodney King eventually ignited the powder keg of civil unrest in Southern California, also known as the L.A. On this day in 1985, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake rocked Mexico City and its surrounding environs at 9:17 a.m. EDT (7:17 a.m. local time). ''That`s part. One public hospital completely collapses. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies and Privacy Policy. “One is destined for something,” she says. The Nunez baby isn't very old; she was born just a short time before two earthquakes devastated parts of this capital, including the hospital where she first came into the world. There were voices. The fourth, known only by her mother`s names, Hernandez Sandoval, has a 95 percent chance of survival, although she suffered severe injuries to her left foot. She hopes to pursue a master’s degree. He keeps a blog and can be reached at www.johnenders.com. “I never married. “He says, ‘I don’t know why God didn’t just take me then,’” Leonardo says. As Mexico marks 30 years since the 8.1-magnitude temblor on Saturday, here are the stories of a baby pulled out of the rubble, a surgeon still working despite losing four … In addition, she said, babies require little fluid during the first days of life, and normal babies tend to lose 10 percent of their body weight during their first 10 days. ''In such a state their respiration would fall off to a minimum, and that would conserve their energy and strength,'' he said. Evelia Alvarez Gasca, good-humored and playful, likes to sing and dance. In the early years, the hospital provided free, government-paid medical and dental care, including multiple internal and reconstructive surgeries, for the babies. Cuevas said another factor contributing to the babies` survival was the layer of special fat beneath the skin of newborns, which probably helped insulate them during the cool, rainy nights and supplied them with calories during the day. She was born at the Juarez Hospital on Sept. 17, 1985, and arrived at the Children’s Hospital with a broken left ankle, a severe laceration over her left eye and multiple abrasions. Eventually, a search dog barked and another woman, apparently trapped nearby, yelled for help. Both infants are now hospitalized doing … “The life he has, he has won,” says Leonardo. He's a happy person, he says, despite the 1985 earthquake. Every day, in the packed hallways and the sun-lit courtyard of the hospital, she greets many of those responsible for healing her and keeping her healthy after her rescue. “It was a great miracle.". On September 19, 1985, at 7:18 in the morning, the residents of Mexico City were jolted awake by an 8.1-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to ever hit the area. “I missed having a mother, but I didn’t ever know her,” Claudia says. Claudia Isabel Rios lives in the working-class Mexico City neighborhood of Azcapotzalco, where unemployment and burgeoning street crime are the biggest concerns for most residents. More than 10,000 people were killed, 30,000 were injured, and large parts of the city were destroyed. She refers to the doctors, nurses and others at the Children’s Hospital as “my other family.”, “It has all made me think that we live for something,” she says. They would ask, ‘How do you feel?’ Children are very cruel sometimes.” Juana was born one day before the earthquake. Her aunts have sacrificed a lot by taking Claudia into their home. Record of mexico city 1985 earthquake? The 14 newborns provided inspiration and hope to a devastated … “People tell me that I take life very seriously. But, at 24, she no longer aspires to join the Mexican women’s national team, recognizing she is too old to join a major team. For them, reminders of the catastrophe are everywhere. They seem now to represent not just hope, but proof that, while the scars of the tragedy would forever alter their lives, the people of Mexico City eventually would recover from the devastation. The story you just read is freely available and accessible to everyone because readers like you support The World financially. Riots. To … I feel we have to take advantage of every minute.”. They spent the first week of their lives buried beneath hundreds of tons of rubble without food or water, and they are doing just fine. But being alive is better than being dead. She loves going to work at the Children’s Hospital. She started playing in the streets with an all-boys neighborhood team at age 5, and since 17 she has played on an all-female team called the Pumas, or Panthers. But his adoptive parents have not given up on the young man, who underwent half a dozen major surgeries to repair a knee, a hip and his crushed mouth and cheek. The a baby girl and beat out bolsa S born last Thursday just minutes before the earthquake. Babies survived up to 9 days after the quake (the 22 miracle babies) Cite. 1 Recommendation. ''We really don`t know how they survived,'' said Dr. Rolando Cuevas Uribe, a pediatrician treating four infants at the Military Hospital, but a primary reason may be that newborns have a great deal of fluid in their bodies, he said. Richard Sennott photographed the earthquake aftermath for the Boston Herald. July 5 – The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment. The rocks, the lack of water?” asks Victor Hugo Hernandez, now 24, who was born two days before the quake and later had both legs amputated. The ``miracle babies'' who survived in the rubble of collapsed hospitals after the Mexico City earthquake in 1985 now are 3-year-olds, thriving on special attention from doctors and relatives. She and Cuevas said that because the infants had only primitive vision and no sense of being in danger, they were unlikely to suffer any lasting psychological trauma. ), “It was dark. https://www.pri.org/stories/2010-02-05/miracle-babies-mexico-city-25-years-later “To me, it’s like paying the hospital back. All were trapped for four to seven days, yet suffered only minor injuries. They are four babies who were buried alive just hours after their birth when the Juarez Hospital in central Mexico City collapsed during the first of two killer earthquakes last week. An eight-story structure wrenched from its foundation by the Sept. 19, 1985, earthquake in Mexico City. With money donated by individuals and groups in Mexico and Europe, hospital authorities set up a trust fund whose earnings have paid for medicine and educational expenses. The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration. Her mother, Maria de Jesus Romo, was in another part of the hospital when the temblor hit and was rescued two days after her daughter. (Courtesy of the hospital), Group picture from September 2000 of most of the surviving "miracle babies," then 15, and their doctors and nurses, taken at the Children's Hospital where they have received treatment, counseling and other support for years. J.B. Pritzker gives a coronavirus update, After Twitter outcry, 5 women detail Chris D’Elia’s alleged sexual improprieties. (John Enders/GlobalPost), A party at the Children's Hospital for the "miracle babies" for their second birthday. They were in the maternity section of the General Hospital, and rescuers found them four days later. Newborn babies seem so helpless and fragile but in some respects they are more resilient than adults. Araceli says that the fame of the “miracle babies” has nothing to do with them, but rather is about what they symbolize. “He has physical problems with his legs. September 19, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Mexico City. June 29 – Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 to win the 1986 World Cup in Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. July 2 – Walt Disney Pictures releases the company's 26th animated film, The Great Mouse Detective. The youngest girl in a family of seven children, Milagros is an assistant to a building contractor and earns 200 pesos (just over $16) a day. Mexico City: Thousands of people died in an earthquake that devastated Mexico City on September 19, 1985, but heroes and miraculous survivors emerged from the tragedy. The Children’s Hospital, next door to the General Hospital, somehow escaped major structural damage and the rescued children began arriving there almost immediately. Remarkably, all but one of the buried infants lost exactly the right amount of weight. All the “miracle babies,” like other Mexicans, are today left to cope with a national economic crisis, low wages and high unemployment, and a drug-related crime wave. (Richard Sennott/GlobalPost), Rescue workers saved three girls from the ruins of the Benito Juarez Hospital in Mexico City seven days after the 8.1 earthquake. “As babies, how did we survive all we did? He wants to get a good job and get married. On the morning of September 19, 1985 a magnitude 8.1 earthquake shook the ground beneath the city. Between Mexico City and the epicenter 250 miles to the southwest lie the Sierra Madre mountains dotted with remote towns. That figure was widely disregarded by the media, however, and contrasted sharply with the official report from the Mexico City Police Department, which said 4,722 bodies had been recovered. I was a patient, and now it’s my turn to serve,” she says. To learn more, review our Cookie Policy. PRX is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the IRS: #263347402. All four babies in the Military Hospital are now eating and sleeping normally, and Cuevas predicted that three of the four would suffer no lasting damage. Your donation directly supported the critical reporting you rely on, the consistent reporting you believe in, and the deep reporting you want to ensure survives. Sign up for our daily newsletter TOP OF THE WORLD and get the big stories we’re tracking delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sundays are sacred,” Claudia says. “I haven’t found my destiny yet.”, Hortensia Hernandez was breastfeeding her baby, born just one hour before, when the earthquake struck. (Courtesy of the hospital), Areceli Santamaria Romo speaks with a co-worker at the in-house pharmacy where she works at the Children's Hospital in Mexico City. The rescuers, helped by family members who spent days digging at the devastated hospital building, eventually found Hortensia and Milagros, but they never found the other woman. Two reasons are the resonance in the lakebed sediments and the long duration of the shaking. Milagros doesn’t like the name, thinking it pretentious, and goes by “Lupita.” (The two Hernandez families are not related. “We don’t have children," says Leonardo. Today, he is a freelance journalist specializing in Latin America. Rescue teams from France, the United States and other countries, and dozens of volunteers from Mexico City’s devastated neighborhoods, including family members of the victims, dug for days looking for survivors. Of the 16 infants who were taken to the hospital, 14 would survive. The first quake hit at 7:17 a.m. Juarez Hospital and General Hospital — the two biggest maternity centers for Mexico City’s poor and working-class residents — were among the hardest hit. “It was a second chance, to have a second life,” she says. (Courtesy of the hospital), As part of the celebration in 2000, the "miracle babies," then 15, were invited to the presidential residence, where they were hosted by the then-First Lady of Mexico Marta Sahagun Fox. I was relating to my daughter-in-law the story about the newborn babies that survived the collapse of the hospitals where they were born after a devastating earthquake struck Mexico City in 1985. Many, their mothers killed by the collapsing buildings, were taken in by aunts, uncles and grandparents. The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The "Miracle Children" are children no more. Most of the earthquake damage was to buildings. She is married and has a 5-year-old son. A pre-event quake of magnitude 5.2 occurred on 28 May 1985. On their final day of waiting, Leonard had gone to another part of the city to check on family members. She is enough,” says her aunt Hortensia Juarez. The two who later died are marked in yellow. It was the biggest natural disaster in decades, in the most densely populated city in the hemisphere. Nurses, medical students, and physicians improvise care for patients. Her mother was crushed, held down by the debris, and could not move even to feed her. Hortensia by then could not speak. Milagros suffered mostly cuts and bruises, but she also is missing the third knuckle on her left hand from a crushed bone that never developed. Despite their traumas and injuries, the children of the earthquake today appear to be fairly typical young men and women: Some are day laborers, another a pharmacist at the hospital where she was taken as a near-dead infant. Perhaps as many as 20 times as many people died in Haiti as in Mexico City, and the Haiti quake brought an entire country to its knees, while Mexico’s economy, infrastructure and society appeared far more resilient. The survivors would be known as the "miracle babies" but most of the trapped infants only lived a few hours past their births. The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 am (CST), caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and serious damage to the Greater Mexico City Area. Their lot in life, and their challenges, are not unlike those facing the children and adults rescued in Haiti in recent weeks. The 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits. Abdelrahman Abdelaleem. But we’ve given her an education.”, Theoretically, Claudia says, she would like to go back to school someday but can’t see any good reason to do so. Reportaje sobre el Terremoto del 19 de Septiembre de 1985 en la Gran Ciudad de MéxicoEntrevistan a Eduardo Saucedo y Mester, Rescate del Hospital Juarez The life of each “miracle baby” was turned upside down and inside out. More than four hundred buildings collapsed. July. She died, and for five days her child, one arm and ribs crushed and with a severe head injury, lay jammed into a dirty, rat-infested space hardly bigger than a shoebox. “The next day, many voices faded away.”. Her mother’s body was never found. The still unfolding stories of dramatic rescues in Haiti — of life emerging from the ruins — bring back vivid memories of Mexico City a quarter century ago. The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. Newborn babies were rescued from the wreckage after being trapped for as many as 10 days. His aunt Graciela Rodriguez and her husband Leonardo — who later became Jesus’ adopted parents — waited for days outside the hospital for news. Three of the four have lost their mothers; one was found lying on her dead mother`s breast. John Enders covered the aftermath of the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City for the Oregonian newspaper. The miracle of baby Jesus, rescued during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake Jesus Francisco (center), one of the so-called "miracle children" who survived the Sept. 19, … These buildings tended to resonate most with the energetic frequency band of the lakebed motions. We couldn’t have done it without your support. She later she obtained a scholarship to college, where she studied biology and chemistry as part of a pharmaceutical program. Each had to deal with the tragedy of their infanthood, the cuts, bruises, crushed limbs and bones, and the emotional trauma that started on that September day almost 25 years ago. The complete seismic event consisted of four quakes. “He is very strong, very courageous.” He tells his adopted parents he wants to return to school one day and become a social worker. “The hardest thing was seeing videos of 1985 every September in school,” says Juana Jazmin Arias. Cuevas said the babies ''were probably asleep most of the time,'' or in a state of semi-hibernation. (Richard Sennott/GlobalPost), A hand-written list of the 16 newborn infants brought to the Children's Hospital, some within hours and some up to nine days after the Mexico City earthquake. Thirty years later, it's no exaggeration to say that the disaster remains a vivid memory, but one story of a miracle baby stands out. Rescue workers saved three girls from the ruins of the Benito Juarez Hospital in Mexico City seven days after the 8.1 earthquake. "I lived it. Mexico City's "ninos del sismo," or the "children of the earthquake," turn 25 this September. In many damaged buildings, just one floor had collapsed. An unusually outspoken feminist for this macho-dominated society, she says that girls have fewer opportunities than boys in Mexico. Claudia graduated from high school and now works in a factory that makes kitchen appliances. But her life revolves around soccer. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. She had 37 broken bones, including her pelvis. Milagros Guadalupe Hernandez during a visit to the Children's Hospital. The 8.1-magnitude quake struck Mexico City on Sept. 19, 1985, followed by a 7.5-magnitude aftershock one day later. Foreign donors provided funds to pay for their medical care and even their education. Rescue workers form a human chain clearing debris by hand, Sept. 25, 1985. “We don’t have any inheritance to give her. "He’s the only son we had.”. When Jesus sees newscasts of the devastation in Haiti on the television, he quickly turns the channel. Want to see what's on deck? Some babies escaped physically unscathed by the quake, while others would grapple with lifelong disabilities. “Life for them has not been easy.” The hospital never issued a report on the miracle babies to protect their privacy, he said. Among the most remarkable rescues was that of 58 newborn babies, pulled alive from the wreckage of a maternity ward three days after the earthquake struck. To look at the "ninos" today as they approach a quarter century of life is to see a reflection of the hopes and dreams, some fulfilled and some dashed, of the Mexican people. “The hospital adopted them,” says Jose Alberto Garcia Aranda, director of the Children’s Hospital. The 7.1 earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12 was far smaller than the 8.1 quake in Mexico, but the magnitude of the catastrophe has been far greater. I dedicated myself to this girl. 2nd Aug, 2019. When he returned, he says, as he choked down tears from the memory of it: “They said, ‘he lives, he lives.’ It was amazing.”, Jesus, who refused to talk to a reporter about his life, left school early to work so he could help the family. The effects of the quake were particularly devastating because of the type of ground upon which the city sits. People were yelling, crying out, asking for help,” she says, repeating what her mother has told her over the years. ''Their environment would have been something like a womb, I think,'', Holden said, ''something they were obviously used to.''. Two of the fathers survived. There are doctors, college graduates driving taxis all over Mexico.”, “She was always underweight,” says Norma Lucia Vinas, the team's other doctor, about Araceli Santamaria Romo, who is perhaps the most outwardly successful of the “ninos del sismo.”. Jazmín was not only a “miracle baby,” but the first to be rescued from the ruins of a Mexico City hospital after the devastating earthquake of 1985. But it didn’t start out that way. Araceli was born the day before the quake and rescuers took her to the Children’s Hospital within hours of the disaster. Mexico City is on a plateau surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. "We began receiving victims within hours, nine at first. Another’s OB/GYN tower falls, killing patients and medical staff. “When we started school, everyone knew us. Her mother died in the earthquake, so Claudia eventually went to live with her mother's sisters. The "miracle babies" of Mexico City have been the poster children of survival for almost 25 years. 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The buildings most damaged were from 6 to 15 stories in height. This video documents the health problems and relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquakes of September 19 and 20, 1985. (John Enders/GlobalPost), Juana Jazmin Arias speaks with Dr. Norma Lucia Vinas about her university application papers, at the Children's Hospital. The infants embodied a stubborn determination to hold on to life, a symbol of human resiliency amid disaster. The Mexico City earthquake was the most catastrophic in the country's history. A couple in Mexico City are celebrating the “miracle” birth of their son, whose arrival coincided with Tuesday’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Her 22-year-old husband, Alejandro Perez, who left Mexico a few months after the earthquake, now lives in New York, where he works in a restaurant and sends some money home to help support his family. Some are unemployed. 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