Sunday June 8 2008, 3:25pm.
Quake source located close to North West Achaia , and andravida Ilia, 10 km depth.
205 South by Southwest of Athinai, and about 58 km North of Patras Achaia.
6.5 Richter scale
Possible regional Damage and possible human casualties(according to Pirgos Mayor, Makis Paraskevopoulos, quake felt so strong that the locals believed the town of Pirgos would be demolished!)
Human Casualties : 2 dead, 110 insured.
Damages reported in 14 villages of Ilia and Achaia.
Strong aftershocks expected so State remains on alert.
Also, evident in most of western Greece.
Felt strongly in Athens/Attica and central Greece.
Happened around 3:25 pm local Greek time.
Footage:
Not long ago we saw daily TV pictures of mountain-like fires raging across Greece’s finest forests, threatening the lives of many (non-Muslim) people. Before that we saw here in Morocco fellow (Muslim) Moroccans bewailing the death of their loved ones who died in the Earthquakein the Al Hoceima region in the north of the country. Disaster does not strike the people of just one faith. It’s the same pains, the same feelings, but attitudes sometimes vary. I had once heard on the radio the story of a girl from Rwanda who had lost all her family in the genocide. I sympathized with her (through my ears), but that wasn’t as much as I felt when I saw with my own eyes on Moroccan TV a Moroccan man lying in hospital bed and thanking God, he who had lost 16 members of his family in the Al Hoceima earthquake. What would I then say of my own hardships compared to the lot of such a poor man? How could I dare to say that what happened to that man was because of his sins? Would I have the same amount of patience were I to undergo a similar hardship? I experienced the death of (only) my grand-mother nine years ago and then the death of (only) my father a little more than three months ago and felt how painful it was; what about losing all one’s family at once, overnight?
Moralization is best when it comes out like a gentle breeze from within one’s soul, rather than when inflicted by a safe-and-sound preacher.
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Many thanks for sharing these thoughts with us.
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