Being Greek myself (I live in Piraeus) I would like to thank James for bringing this up and all of you responding to his thread... FYI the earthquake was quite big (5,9 R) and its center was 18km away from Athens. Up to now several buildings have been reported collapsed -some still holding people trapped- and the last time I heard of human casualties they were about 50 people dead and about 300 wounded... Jon-Greece