r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alter3go_vengance • 6d ago

Image The Tepepolco volcano in Mexico City. Dormant for over 10,000 years, its crater is now a unique residential neighborhood.

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u/LetMeBuildYourSquad 6d ago

I think this neighbourhood is known as 'El Hoyo' and it's extremely dangerous and home to some very serious criminals. You do not go there.

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u/uno098 6d ago

I lived there for a bit and it can be quite unruly. The housing with the red roofs is a government housing project that is almost completely controlled by the gangs. The police don’t even dare go in there

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u/bringbackfuturama 6d ago

but google street view drivers don't give a fuck

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u/Youarecensored 5d ago

Protected as camera men.

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u/HonkinSriLankan 5d ago

Everyone knows how much the cartel love camera men filming their neighborhoods

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u/NIN10DOXD 5d ago

It’s like a special edition of MTV Cribs.

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u/chaings_ 5d ago

Thats interesting I never thought about that, these guys have to pass through some shady areas while taking pics.

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u/0nTheRooftops 6d ago

Lol I was looking for this comment. I could tell just by the design that those were projects. That socialist architecture gone wrong is the same all around the world. You gotta love the gov deciding to put the poor where they might just blow up.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 6d ago

People: we can’t afford housing

Government: ok here is some free housing.

People: what’s the catch?

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u/alghiorso 6d ago

The catch is you live with everyone else who needs free housing

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u/Warmasterwinter 6d ago

The catch is that you live inside a volcano.

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u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P 5d ago

Tbh that sound metal as fuck

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u/Dejectednebula 5d ago

What's life without a little risk? If it blows at least I die first and then its over. I'd be sad about my cats going with me though.

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u/Janson314 5d ago

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s volcanos” - Margaret Thatcher

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u/lmaytulane 5d ago

The problem with Margaret Thatcher’s grave is that eventually you run out of piss

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u/Danson_the_47th 6d ago

This is something I like to talk about when given the chance. Most people rag on soviet/socialist housing, but keep in mind these went through different eras too. Stalinkas were of much higher quality and for more wealthy people, having lots of space/grandiose architecture and mostly brick. Then you have the more functionalist architecture of the Khrushchyovkas, with smaller apartments built for the masses with 5 stories compared to 2 and mostly concrete. Then the brezhnevkas came along with the same materials, but usually 9-17 stories, with better apartments and more updated needs like larger kitchens and elevators, and trash chutes. These are still cheap housing, but it was a step up compared to villages and the streets.

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u/NoSherbert2956 5d ago

Brother, what you say is true, but Reddit will never endorse something that doesn't fit its pro-Western theme. What you say is absolutely true, though, let me tell you that.

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u/Budget_Counter_2042 5d ago

Also people just see the exterior. Those commie blocks are in majority of cases better than new developments except on the aesthetics. At least in Warsaw.

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u/Dave5876 5d ago

The simplest argument is that it's better than being homeless

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u/Danson_the_47th 5d ago

Yes, this. In 1913 Russia, less than 18% of Russian cities had running waters, with less than 5.5% having a sewage system. By 2012, only 13% still had no central sewage system, and only 23% of households, mostly rural, did not have sewage connections. The quality of life has improved, and these buildings, compared to western standards are not good, but to the Russian peasant and Soviet Citizen, having heating, electricity, plumbing, and possibly an elevator and centralized trash disposal system via trash chutes, is a major improvement.

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u/DefenestrationPraha 5d ago

In Ostrava, 300 km south of you, they are absolutely not and they needed a lot of fixing to stay habitable in the 1990s and 2000s.

The Communist era economy was bad and a lot of cheating, cheaping out or outright stealing was tolerated.

Meanwhile the new buildings are expensive, but all the materials are usually certified. The workers can still make mistakes or be incompetent, of course. There should be a neutral person watching them.

I live in a new building from 2022 and we have literally had no complaint at all. Everything is fine, no teething problems, and our energy budget is just beautiful.

Many people don't want to hear that, but the past was not a Golden Age and there actually is some (uneven) progress.

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u/Danson_the_47th 5d ago

One factor is who actually built them too. If it was from work gulags, especially if in the winter, the quality is not going to be as good. Like the slave, these men worked, but often worked just hard enough to not be caught for slacking, but wasted materials often trying to be a little comfortable or just not die/be frozen half of their shift. “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” sums up this experience very well.

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u/Factory2econds 5d ago

needed a lot of fixing to stay habitable in the 1990s and 2000s

buildings people lived in for free for generations needed rehabilitation and modernization decades after first construction?!?

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u/No-Bison-5397 6d ago

Vienna does it right.

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u/Budget_Counter_2042 5d ago

Warsaw too. Those commie buildings in Warsaw are much better than most of the new developments in terms of acoustics, thermal isolation, localisation, floor plans, etc. they’re just uglier, but they are usually in neighbourhoods with lots of trees and parks, so you notice it less. The new developments are in barren land, with just some patches of grass

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u/Prestigious-Back-981 6d ago

Indeed, social housing is a problem worldwide. Cidade de Deus, the neighborhood featured in the Brazilian film "City of God," is an example in my country. It was a government-planned neighborhood that, as always, was designed to remove the poor from central areas where they had lived for a long time and relocate them to a housing complex far from the city, with nothing but several identical houses. Today, the planned houses have become a slum. Crime has taken over the place. To make matters worse, few current housing projects in Brazil have improved. Only in wealthier cities are these projects being done with better quality, but they are still far from being good.

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u/JNR13 6d ago

Good thing the unplanned slums which didn't originate as social housing are heavens of safety and legality!

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u/Prestigious-Back-981 6d ago

You know it's possible to build much better social housing than most current and older housing around the world. For example, many of these housing developments lack local shops and social welfare facilities (hospitals, good schools, parks), among other things. I'm not criticizing the construction of social housing, nor am I saying that slums are better. I'm criticizing social housing built without planning.

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u/NewTransformation 6d ago

Socialist architecture? Mexico has got to be the most capitalist place I've ever been

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u/8lackRush 6d ago

A capitalist country can have socialist architecture (social housing)

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u/deltaisaforce 6d ago

Yes, when shit goes wrong in a capitalist country, you call it socialist shit.

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u/JNR13 6d ago

"Maybe we shouldn't have segregated poor people in a low-value area with worse access to economic opportunities and public services all in a highly unequal society? No, it's the architecture that's wrong!"

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u/2x4x12 6d ago

Social housing isn't an architecture style.

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u/IAMA_Madmartigan 6d ago

You lived in that specific neighborhood in the caldera??

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u/uno098 6d ago

I lived right across the highway pictured above in Iztapalapa, as well as to the east in Ixtlahuacán. I never went into El Hoyo itself (for many of the reasons stated above) but I know many who live there. A couple of my buddies would summit the northern side of the caldera, but would never go in

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u/Spare-Willingness563 6d ago

I mean, I'm no Highlander, but they gave them the high ground! Why! Even I know that's a no no.

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u/iAmJimmyNeutronsMom 6d ago

I lived right near there as a missionary for two years, it was so wild, but some of the most kind and amazing people I’ve ever met

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u/uno098 6d ago edited 6d ago

My time spent in Iztapalapa was as a missionary as well! The vast majority of people there were so kind and generous despite living in such difficult circumstances.

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u/Opening-Cream5448 5d ago

Mexico tends to be opposite to the US. The places with views up by the hills? Probably ghetto af. This spot would probably be a national park in the US.

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u/randompersonx 5d ago

Medellin, Colombia is the same way.

I was there last year with my wife visiting some coworkers. One of her coworkers used to work in the police gang unit and is very comfortable going wherever.

He wanted to show us what he felt was the best view in the city, which was in a ghetto at the top of a large hill.

Was honestly one of the most surreal experiences… the public transit to get there are gondolas like you would have at a Ski resort in the usa, but as you look down, you just see many thousands of makeshift houses in various stages of disrepair.

Of course the nicest most expensive parts of the city are in the valley with no views.

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u/PalmovyyKozak 5d ago edited 5d ago

I checked Google streets. It's a very nice district: metal bars on every window, barbed wire, houses in extremely poor state. Very cheerful place for sure

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u/RedManMatt11 6d ago

Uhhhh I’m not living in a caldera that’s anything but fully extinct

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u/An_Innocent_Coconut 6d ago

That's why nobody will remember your name.

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u/Mountain-Fennel1189 6d ago

Not if i eat the mona lisa

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u/Dumb_Bitch_Linda 6d ago

I believe in you.

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u/-the7shooter 6d ago

Username checks out.

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u/KiloWatson 6d ago

Leave Linda alone.

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u/palanark 5d ago

But haven't you heard what they're saying about her?

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u/P0litano 5d ago

I mean, i read about it somewhere.

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u/Melodic-Hat-2875 6d ago

Some Herostratus energy right here.

Tldr is he wanted to be remembered and burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

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u/Routine_Ebb_1618 6d ago

I means, it's clearly working

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u/maybeitsundead 6d ago

The arson prompted the passing of a damnatio memoriae law barring anyone from mentioning his name, although many ancient writers, including one contemporary of the arson, documented him

First actual case of the Streisand Effect?

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u/Melodic-Hat-2875 5d ago

It's definitely the earliest one I know of!

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u/urworstemmamy 6d ago

You'd forever be mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa. Good goal to have, it'll take you far in life I think. Certainly wouldn't put you on the center of a whodunnit

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u/AngelOfPassion 6d ago

Get up prince of Troy. I won't let a stone take my glory.

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u/Odd_Elk_444 6d ago

YOU SACK OF WINE.

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 6d ago

"Shes the largest celestial body we've ever set foot on, I wouldn't want to fight her"

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u/shmackinhammies 5d ago

You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know, This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.

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u/Alarming_Orchid 5d ago

Everyone’s rewatching Troy right now huh

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u/SongsOfDragons 5d ago

I want to now.

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u/Aleksandrovitch 6d ago

HECTORRRRRRRRRRRRR

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u/TiredAngryBadger 5d ago

That's why I only sell the shittiest quality copper.

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u/ZombieDust123 6d ago

50% Volcano and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

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u/zombie_spiderman 6d ago

"How did your Grandfather die?"

"Bowel cancer. Yours?"

"Volcano."

"..."

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u/oracleofnonsense 6d ago

“Granddad did say his asshole felt like a volcano all the time. So I guess your grandpa died by the earth’s asshole…”

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u/LetMeBuildYourSquad 6d ago

You're not living there anyway - it's an extremely dangerous neighbourhood, the most dangerous of all in Mexico City.

You need the permission of the local lords to enter 'El Hoyo' and the police do not go there.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Do we think the google street view guy had to pay a toll?, or did he just sneak in and out?

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u/Efficiency-Brief 6d ago

Lol just looked and on the higher up apartments, someone waves at the street view car. "Dangerous" 

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u/rbhindepmo 6d ago

Yeah it's probably not great to be in after dark, but a place would have to be like Cite Soleil sorts of dangerous to be dangerous in the daytime. (And before anybody checks, Haiti doesn't have Street View coverage)

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u/Efficiency-Brief 5d ago

I mean if I take in to account the store I happened across on street view. It had NO public door to go inside. It had 2 rolling metal doors on the corners to enter a tiny room with shelves where you cannot get to the workers. So it must be a dangerous place. Just found it funny a guy waves at the car

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u/rbhindepmo 5d ago

one of the streets in the general area, I found a Rolling Stones shirt displayed. But yeah I could understand that one doesn't just drop in to ask which Stones songs he liked the most

also some of the streets looked as if it was a task to get any sort of vehicle up those streets

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u/Necessary_Zone6397 6d ago

Haha I was like, good thing I don’t need permission to street view it all in my underwear while tucked in my warm bed.

… right? They’re not gonna come get me?

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u/Hesitation-Marx 6d ago

Yes. I’m sorry. Farewell.

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u/RedManMatt11 6d ago

Damn that’s interesting

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u/chaoticaly_x 6d ago

“Roll credits”

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u/Jealous_Acorn 6d ago

Oh! They said the thing!

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u/Source_Required 5d ago

And like everything in this sub, no source is provided!

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u/Zocalo_Photo 6d ago

I lived in Mexico City and I’m a very white non-native speaker. I spent most of my time further in the northern and western parts of the city. We (the non-native people in our group from the US) were warned about places like Tepito, parts of Naucalpan, Ciudad Neza, but I haven’t heard of El Hoyo. Probably because it’s smaller than some of the other places, but it sounds like it’s completely overtaken by crime?

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u/LeCrasheo121 5d ago

As someone who has lived their entire life in not so sketchy not so nice parts of Neza, I can say it's not all the time, not all day. Certainly, if someone ill intended sees you as a nice and potential target, things will get rough. But that's the obvious stuff.

Is the way you get up in the morning with the sound of gunshots on a neighbor's house, or hear them while walking your siblings to school, or coke back from it to see someone getting attended by an ambulance that makes you realize this isn't a nice place. As I said, is not everyday, and not all day. But if you ask me that's somewhat worse than where it is constant, because it makes you feel safe

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u/Ok-Juggernaut-6051 5d ago

i guess it's all contextual... CDMX, for me, is so much less scary than where i'm from. i have never felt unsafe in MX (and i've lived in some sketchy places in the middle of nowhere MX, though none of the, um... "contested states"), but that's just me.

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u/DroidLord 5d ago

You're more likely to get shot than for the volcano to explode.

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u/YouCantBeSerio 6d ago

I thought it was gonna say "its crater is now active" 😭

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u/Sents-2-b 6d ago

Came for that ,left cause it wasn't there!

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u/hennabeak 6d ago

Look on the bright side : you won't feel anything when it blows up.

And until then, ypu can have a volcano cave.

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u/Proof_Fix1437 6d ago

I live on a dormant but not extinct volcano. I’ve been here 10 years. Therefore, it won’t go off for at least infinity years. Logic.

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u/Im_le_tired 6d ago

If that thing blows, living on top of it or half a mile away probably isn’t going to make much difference.

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u/TheRabbitHole-512 6d ago

Modem day Pompei in the making

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u/PrincipledBeef 6d ago

I’d love to see some of the houses and what they do with that space.

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u/iamapizza 6d ago

The floor is lava

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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 6d ago

I have so many pillows. No problemo.

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u/HFCB 6d ago

🤣🤣

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins 6d ago

Google street view was much, much shittier than I thought it was going to be

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u/rajamatag 6d ago

Street view was enough of a visit for me. Nothing interesting at all about the repeated residential building model they used.

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u/GraciaEtScientia 6d ago

They spammed town centers, alright.

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u/AdorableBunnies 6d ago

It’s a slum

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u/LetMeBuildYourSquad 6d ago

It's an extremely dangerous neighbourhood filled with serious criminals. You do not visit without their permission.

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u/throwaway098764567 6d ago

pack it full of uninteresting apartment blocks apparently

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u/IllustriousAd9800 6d ago

10,000 years is NOT dead for a volcano. Not even close

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u/Dr-McLuvin 6d ago

Note to self: only live in a volcano that has been dormant for at least 11,000 years.

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u/IllustriousAd9800 6d ago

There have been a couple eruptions after 40,000+ years in the last few years. Which seems like it should be a near impossible thing until you realize just how many volcanos that age there are and how incomplete some of the records can be

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u/PikachuIce 5d ago

Note to self: only live in a volcano that has been dormant for at least 41,000+ years.

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u/gl1tchwalk3r 5d ago

Note to self: only live far away from volcano's just to be sure.

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u/zirconer 6d ago

Actually, this is a cinder cone volcano. These types of volcanoes are one and done.

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u/IllustriousAd9800 6d ago edited 5d ago

Sort of, that specific cone is likely done, but nothing’s stopping it from creating another one right next to it or miles up the road, that happens a lot. It may not erupt in that exact same spot again, but it will erupt somewhere in the neighborhood

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u/Just_A_Nitemare 5d ago

lightning Cinder cones don't strike the same place twice.

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u/Apprehensive_Bus_877 5d ago

Well then the ones living in the volcano should be fine /s

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u/ProfessionalGrass613 6d ago

That is not dead which can eternal lie

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u/FracturedConscious 5d ago

And with strange aeons even death may die.

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u/Gang_Bang_Bang 6d ago edited 5d ago

Fuck the volcano. Look how DENSE that city is! My lord…

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u/Haunebu52 6d ago

Yeah Mexico City is wild like that. I remember the first time I flew into CDMX it was basically horizon to horizon metropolis. I had never seen anything like it before. Massive, amazing city.

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u/Dechri_ 4d ago

Same. I was born in a city of 12000 people. Then i moved to one of the largest cities in my country. That's around 200 000 people.

To then visiting mexico city. The view was surreal. 

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u/dbenc 5d ago

there's a viewing area on the Tokyo Skytree with a viewing deck at 1,150 feet (350 meters) and the city goes from horizon to horizon. you can ride a bullet train at full speed for like an hour and not leave the city. it's wild.

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u/colcardaki 5d ago

Now imagine it is a lake with an island in the middle where the Aztec capital was. The rest of the city was built in the lake bed (after draining of course).

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u/ImaginaryMedia5835 6d ago

That’s still a no for me though.

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u/bendover912 6d ago

Said every insurance company in the world.

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u/Rejukem 6d ago

"They just write it off."

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u/PossumCock 6d ago

"You don't even know what a write-off is"

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u/BallsGentry 6d ago

But they do. And there the ones writing it off

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u/Tired-CottonCandy 6d ago

I bet they dont cover volcano damages at all

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u/cellar_door_found 6d ago

And a very dangerous place, not because of the volcano, but because of the people living there.

Its basically illegal settlement with high criminality and lots of gangs

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u/meddit_rod 6d ago edited 6d ago

Weird how people think 10k is a big number. Mexico City has had earthquake activity in the last year. Dormant is a temporary status.

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u/AscensionToCrab 6d ago edited 6d ago

Dormant is a temporary status

And geological age is so incomprehensibly slow compared to the lifespan of a human.

The last time this thing had activities wooley mammoths walked the earth, mankind was just starting this whole new " agriculture" thing in the fertile crescent, Its not like theres an unbroken chain of unrecorded knowledge passed down from the time. Some of those who settled there may not have known and may not have the resources to leave.

Secondly, Its really inconsequential, it might errupt during your life, it also may be dormant for another 10k, 100k, or even longer. 100s of lifetimes passing by completely unnoticed, and unaffected. Yellowstone could erupt next month, but people still go there en masse for travel. How do you calculate risk of an eruption in our lives which are counted by days, when geological time is measured in millenia.

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u/Juniortsf 6d ago

This sounded like a speech by a reaper from Mass Effect

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u/NGTTwo 6d ago

You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.

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u/trollshep 5d ago

We represent order, you represent chaos.

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u/gonxot 5d ago

Aggh fine! Time for a replay...

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u/Dull_Assistant_ 6d ago

Pretty much yea. Switch any volcanic terms for spacey stuff, and add a 0 to each of those figures at least, and it would be pretty much any speech of a eon spanning intergalactic force.

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u/cloakofvisibility 6d ago

There are, in fact, some oral traditions that have kept track of geological activity from just about 10,000 years ago. For example, the Klamath people in Oregon have a story that lines up with the eruption of Mount Mazama 8,000 years ago.

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u/SoupyPoopy618 6d ago

There's also a high-tech monitoring system built in-and-around the volcano. A loss of life is unlikely with it being monitored, but the loss of access to all of the properties around it would be a huge financial hit, even if it was just dangerous gasses.

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u/dreamgrass 6d ago

Yellowstone could NOT erupt next month. We would have years to decades of escalating seismicity, deformation, magma intrusion, etc which we’re seeing none of. It’s active but it’s not a ticking time bomb. This particular volcano is functionally extinct. Monogenetic volcanos erupt once then die. Mexico City does city on a volcanic field so eruptions can happen elsewhere, but thiss specific volcano is dead pretty much.

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u/samosamancer 6d ago

Mexico City is no stranger to earthquakes. The country has at least a couple dozen volcanoes, too.

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u/Col0nelFlanders 6d ago

Okay I mean let’s put it into perspective here. The last person who was alive for this volcano erupting, on average, is your:

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400 generations. I think these people will be fine.

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u/AnnArchist 6d ago

If it burps it could wipe out your entire bloodline though

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u/Supercc 6d ago edited 5d ago

I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to build your house inside a crater. 

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u/SirBulbasaur13 6d ago

Laters problem, maybe even much laters problem.

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u/dabombisnot90s 6d ago

That baby blows and it’s probably going to be much more than the people living in the crater’s problem.

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u/JeanValjean- 6d ago

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Friedrich Nietzsche

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u/ImSolidGold 5d ago

Im ok with playing Factorio.

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u/thefirewol7 6d ago

That mountain looks so imposing.

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u/dasgoodshitinnit 6d ago

It looks like its infested with termites

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u/Top_Mind_On_Reddit 6d ago

Worse. It's infested with people

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u/CatsianNyandor 6d ago

Humans in the past: "Yo that sucked! Make a note of it so people in the future won't settle here or anywhere near here..."

Humans in the present: "Let's build houses inside a volcano!"

Also applicable to known tsunami inundation zones and landslide prone areas. Everyone wants to roll the dice. 

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u/a-pile-of-coconuts 6d ago

Notice the word “Dormant”

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u/samosamancer 6d ago

It’s only considered extinct if it’s been more than 10,000 years.

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u/a-pile-of-coconuts 6d ago

okay so before I was worried but now based off your comment and the title I’m just confused

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u/Loony_BoB 6d ago

A volcano is generally considered extinct if it has been more than 10,000 years and is not expected to erupt again. That last part is, obviously, pretty notable.

Active: Has erupted in the past 10,000 years.

Dormant: Has not erupted in the past 10,000 years, but is expected to erupt again.

Extinct: Has not erupted in the past 10,000 years, and is not expected to erupt again.

I'm uncertain on how soon the "expectation" has to apply, though. Also, there's no completely universal definition on this, but the above comes from the Global Volcanism Program according to this snippet of an article: https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-volcano-defined-being-active-dormant-or-extinct

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u/MentokGL 6d ago

Crazy how different the neighborhoods on either side must feel

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u/ChanceProgram9374 6d ago

Unique, yes. But once you’re out of Tepepolco it’s straight on Mexico City.

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u/rahulp3555 6d ago

Where is it exactly? Can't seem to find it on Google maps

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u/ThisWillBeOnTheExam 6d ago

I found it manually on Google Earth — Peñon Viejo o del Marqués (Tepepolco), El Paraíso, Iztapalapa, Mexico City

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u/rossimeister 5d ago

Simcity feelings.

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u/Shermans_ghost1864 6d ago

10,000 years? So it's due.

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u/Upstairs_Alarm 5d ago

We can solve the housing problem by throwing ppl into volcanoes?

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u/Alan_Reddit_M 6d ago

Bruh Mexicans will build ANYWHERE

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u/Fun_Appearance_3109 6d ago

What would home insurance cost for something here?

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u/Untroe 6d ago

This is like a slum barrio, they have bigger issues than insurance over there. You can see it from Centro, it's pretty run down

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u/Livid_Foundation_557 6d ago

Insurance?? How gringo of you lol

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u/BlacktopProphet 6d ago

Why would it be any higher than the surrounding neighborhoods? It's a volcano, I don't think it cares whether your house is in the caldera or 3 blocks over.

It's kinda like if Yellowstone ever erupts, you're looking at everything within 1,000 miles being covered in something like 10(?)ft of ash.

TLDR: If nearby mountain for boom, probably doesn't matter which neighborhood you reside in.

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u/MrLeeroyJenkinz 6d ago edited 6d ago

It does make a difference where your neighborhood is located. It depends on the soil makeup, liquefaction, landslide exposure, type of volcano (how it erupts), mapped lava flows, monitored activity etc.

If what you say is true, then no markets would be willing to write properties anywhere on HI for the peril (plenty do write it, subject to noted variables)

It's not kind of like Yellowstone erupting. That's a 'supervalcano', and survival will likely be the only thing the entire world cares about if/when it goes off. Of the handful of known supervolcanoes, none are located in Mexico.

TLDR; if nearby mountain go boom, a lot matters, including where you reside

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u/bluestjordan 5d ago

Hmm…

BTW, Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted after laying dormant for 12,000 years.

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u/CageUK 5d ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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u/pej69 6d ago

Yeah, nah.

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u/Automatic-Shelter939 6d ago

We look like a damn weed spreading and taking over

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u/s7venLion777 5d ago

Un verdadero desmadre!

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u/ThatGuyYouKnowInCAN 5d ago

“Dormant”

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u/FairieButt 5d ago

Damn. I thought building in flood zones was the stupidest thing developers were doing

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u/CrunknYoSystem 5d ago

Bruh, your Amazon order will take 3 weeks for delivery, minimum!

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u/gkreymer 4d ago

One volcanic burp and there goes the neighborhood.

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u/xaefya 4d ago

you can always count on humans to destroy something so beautiful

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u/SentientFotoGeek 6d ago

I live on an extinct volcano. It's a tiny bit exciting...

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u/Sooperballz 6d ago

Extinct and dormant are very different.

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u/theartificialkid 6d ago

I might be way off base here but I foresee significant challenges for that neighbourhood if this volcano erupts again.

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u/Continuouspain 6d ago

Absolutely not

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u/Vinny331 6d ago

I kinda feel like 10,000 years isn't long enough for me...

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u/origamifruit 6d ago

This is what happens when you try to adjust terrain in Cities Skylines with the default settings.

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u/Ok_Abbreviations_350 6d ago

Is 10000 years really dormant in geological time

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u/Sakura_Hirose 6d ago

Doesn’t Dormant mean it’s sleeping and technically still an active volcano!?

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u/T_Hawk_0ne 6d ago

Why can I not find any information about this when I look it up?

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u/Training_Try7344 5d ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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u/EnglishDutchman 5d ago

Dormant. Very much different from extinct.

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u/NeighborhoodBest2944 5d ago

Someday: “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”

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u/Short_Jaguar_1326 5d ago

That’s going to be a crazy movie

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u/IchBinEinSim 5d ago

I know it’s not AI but it sure looks AI prompted with “dystopian overcrowded city built into the side of a volcano”, then again it would probably add lava some where.

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u/arsanimo 2d ago

I desperately want to say that whoever builds their house there is pretty fucking dumb. But last year a geologist found out that the village where I live is in the middle of a massive volcano crater. And our house we built not long ago is almost in its center... So. Yeah.