Yesterday I posted that after seven years, my job was no longer Syria conflict-related. I talked about the relief and guilt I felt upon unsubscribing from all my usual Syria updates over email and WhatsApp, which I’ve been part of for years for various jobs. And how, after joining a new project at work last month, I’ll no longer need to follow what’s happening in Syria closely.

My post went live at 2:11pm Boston time yesterday, which happened to be just about 6 hours before the massive, 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and northern Syria.