16yr Annivarsary Of The Armenian Earthquake

[Inna]

A good book to read about this, aswell as the pogroms in Sumgait and Baku and the war in Karabakh, is "Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope" by Donald and Lorna Miller. It's an easy read and it teaches you alot about what happened during that time and provides statements from survivors.

[angelik22]

: sad to say i was there -- in gyumri when the earthquake happened- i was only about 2-3 years old but i remember EVERYTHING ... esp loosing my cousin... just something in my life i wish i could erase and forget- we had alot of hard times til we were able to readjust...

anywhoo.. this helped my development of earthquake phobia.... wish something like that never happens...

[GSTracer05]

Wow...interesting pictures...this one stood out the most

If my family did not move to the United States prior to the earthquake; given the time of the day the earthquake hit, my mother, myself, and my brother would not be alive today. We lived in a building (on the top floor) similar to the one in this picture, but ours was reduced to rubble.

[angelik22]

thats a familiar site i would say... i jsut remember the rubble...the dust in the air....amist the cold fresh winter air...the dust from the concrete that had been broken apart was fresh n the air and within every breath we took...bad memories