Earthquakes

a week ago there was a 4.4 earthquake. I didn't feel it but my students told me about it on Monday morning. It caused me to do a little research on the earthquake subject. Last spring I spoke to Professor Barazangi, who's a seismologist and prof. At Cornell. I know him because his daughter was a student of mine at IHS. When I told him I was moving to Istanbul, he said how wonderful the city is, but then said, "You know, Istanbul is a city waiting to die.". The research I did seems to confirm that...or at least it says that the expectation is that within 20 years there will be a major earthquake. But if it happens, I hope I'm on campus because apparently we're quite earthquake proof. In fact the expectation is that folks will be trying to storm the campus in the event of a major earthquake.