Cityscapes

As one scientist noted, the trajectory of the disaster could be traced following the process of urbanization of the Great City, for example channeling the rivers and canals to build huge avenues, which would then become the outlet for the misfortunes to come.

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Jacinto found one more. We called them “death repositories”: bubbles of concrete that hadn’t managed to cave in. Survivors sought refuge there from the heat and the highwaymen, but they weren’t very stable. In “his repository,” Jacinto thinks the main entrances collapsed, leading the survivors to be completely isolated. He also suspects that there were acts of cannibalism: in the bones of a small child, he found tooth marks. They didn’t appear to be bite marks from a rat or any other animal. Those who had died there, inside, must have suffered through some very difficult hours before finally being able to rest.

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Somebody managed to start up a generator. From that house, we received news from the outside. That is how we found out about how the Great Tremor left both the South

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