jdel:

ericmortensen:

hopefullysusan-:

taylorhowlett:

promotingpeace:

Fifteen-year-old Kent Manning, left, and his sister Libby, 18, react with their father, who asked not to be identified, after they were told by police that there was no hope of finding Kent and Libby’s mother alive in a collapsed building following a 6.3-magnitude earthquake Tuesday, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.

I’m so sorry :’(

Egypt. Bahrain. Libya. New Zealand. Wisconsin. The world has been getting smaller for quite some time now. But it’s no longer getting smaller.

We’re here. We’ve arrived. It’s 2011. The world is small. 

Don’t normally re-blog things like this, but a great point. Terrible things like this happen every day all over the world, but we finally live in a time when an earthquake on the other side of the world doesn’t have to be relegated to a small column below the fold of our local newspaper.

Still, heartbreaking.

Odd. I was just telling a coworker yesterday that earthquakes don’t often kill people. Maybe I was wrong. Here’s to hoping Utah’s due earthquake isn’t too big, and doesn’t kill anyone. This is very sad.