This Mexican village lives under a volcano — but it's earthquakes residents fear

SAN ANTONIO ALPANOCAN, Mexico - They live under the volcano, literally, but their fears are not focused on the latest torrents of smoke, ash and flaming stones belching from "Don Goyo" - as the Popocatepetl volcano is known in these parts, with equal measures of respect and affection, and surprisingly little dread.

"We are all accustomed to Don Goyo and his emanations, his fumarolas, his furies," said Rosalina Rojas Garcia, 55, as she paused one recent afternoon while walking down the main drag of San Antonio Alpanocan just 10 miles from the volcano. "We have lived with Don Goyo all our lives."

Instead it is another aspect of Mexico's geological vulnerability - earthquakes - that drives the anxiety