The Only Stadium to Host 3 World Cups Is Built on Lava

Mexico City is sinking into the drained lake it was built on. Estadio Azteca is not - because in the 1960s they went 16 km south and blasted the stadium out of a volcano's lava field, hauling away around 180 million kilograms of solid basalt. When the magnitude 8.1 earthquake of 1985 destroyed the lakebed city, the Azteca came through with minimal structural damage, and became a rescue base: helicopters landed on the pitch, the dressing rooms became medical triage, and it sheltered thousands who