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History
A Lost Chapter of Devastation in the 1920 Mexican Earthquake
Mexico's forgotten 1920 earthquake devastated towns near Xalapa and Veracruz. El Universal newspaper accounts reveal vanished communities, collapsed buildings and a rising river carrying victims.