How Mexican millennials moved Twitter and earth after the earthquake

On a Tuesday afternoon in September, Ángel Rodríguez, 31, was at a coworking space in downtown Mexico City when the earth began shaking.

"Rocks and pot plants started falling around me,” he told me. “Everybody rushed outside — I thought the building was going to fall down. There were thousands of people on the street, clouds of smoke, buildings swaying."

Once safely on the street, Rodríguez took out his phone and tried to get in touch with his family, but found that phone lines were down. Instead, he turned to Twitter to see what was going on. Scrolling through his feed, he saw the news: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake had struck 55 km (34 miles) south of the city of Puebla, the tremor leveling buildings across the country. Read more...

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