re: #2 Hecuba’s daughter

Why isn’t the earthquake being covered yet by any of the cable news networks?

1. It only happened about 2 hours ago (if the times in #4 are local time, 0417 is 2017 ET (8:17pm) or 1717 PT (5:17pm) so still “new news”
2. It’s in Turkey, so foreign/distant/unknown to most US media.
3. But still plenty of (future) time for reportage

And unfortunately, likely still plenty of time for the quake to run up big casualty figures: even if the affected localities aren’t all timelessly ancient settlements (like so many places in Turkey), it’s unlikely that the building codes for more recent construction are going to be up to say, California standards (though I hope I’m wrong).