2011 strikes again: 7.2 Earthquake in Turkey

[granfire]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45005013/ns/world_news-europe/?gt1=43001#.TqSo37IfhWo

the epicenter is only about 20 km deep.

According to German radio news, experts expect in excess of 1000 casualties.


What is it with this year?!

 

[Sukerkin]

I am so saddened that this has struck Turkey, especially as it shows they have learned nothing from similar disasters that did not happen all that long ago .

 

[granfire]

I think they are still steeped in the oriental mind set of doing things.
Earthquakes are rampant in the region....I still think with horror of the one that leveled Lenirnakan in Aserbaijan in the 1980s...100.000 estimated dead....

Not everybody has the Japanese way of thinking. Sadly.

(then again, seems that ethnicity might have something to do with it: Armenians and Kurds...sigh)