Today marks the 10th anniversary of this terrible earthquake which killed 70,000 people and left around half a million homeless.  This was a major tragedy and makes me think how fragile human life is and how powerless we really are against the forces of nature.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Ýzmit_earthquake

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Alpha and everyone - sorry this was a typo  - I think it was because my mind was on the fact that we are off to Izmir for the day on Wednesday.  And unfortunately the title of the thread can´t be changed