After Mexico’s Earthquake, Social Media Is the New 911

After Mexico’s Earthquake, Social Media Is the New 911

Roberto Hernández Alarcón needed a diamond-blade saw. It was nearing midnight on September 24, and he was standing on the rubble of what had been an office building in the middle of Mexico City. It was five days after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake had hit Mexico, showering rubble across the central states. Hernández, the leader of …