Mexico's Government will spend many millions in repairing and rebuilding the massive structural damage that the September 7th earthquake caused. The 8.1 magnitude quake, with an epicenter in the south of the country, killed 96 people.

The repair and rebuild costs are estimated at 16 billion pesos, which is the equivalent of almost $906 million dollars. So the nine billion pesos available in the National Disaster Fund must be appreciably topped up.

However, Federal infrastructure including highways, hospitals, schools and government offices are covered by special disaster insurance.

This doesn't include the thousands of homes which have cracked or crumbled, leaving many people destitute.

The Federal Government is promising to help struggling State and Municipal Governments to tackle a gigantic task. The Southern States of Oaxaca and Chiapas took the brunt of the 8.1 earthquake.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto visited Chiapas on Saturday, where more than quarter of a million people are affected. Eighty two of the state's municipalities have been severely damaged.

With all the money in the world, and Mexico certainly isn't that rich, it's still going to take years to try to rectify the destruction which took just over one ghastly minute.