we spent three days in chittagong, visiting several affected areas, and talking to a large number of 1st hand witnesses to the landslides that happened in the morning of 11th june 2007. there was heavy rain for days, intensifying during the night/morning of monday 11th june. rain can cause landslides, but if landslides was caused by the heavy rain only, wouldn´t it be reasonable that these occurred at different times during the night/day? in chittagong, it seems landslides happened more or less at the same time in many places, between 8 and 8:15. probably 7-8 different places, was affected by simultaneous landslides which deadly result you have seen in my previous posts. to us it seems that a small earth quake may have destabilized the totally soaked hills, causing them to dissolve into a brutal force of destruction. we have not seen or heard anything about an earth quake, but it would be nice if someone could check out reliable sources to see if such a teory could be true. have anyone seen any report of an earth quake in chittagong in the morning hours of 11th june? i am no expert on this, but it seems very strange that rain alone will cause multiple landslides as if remotely detonated. i will follow up with more pictures from our chottagong trip now, as well as present each of the victims we would like the blog community to help through our chittagong bloggers. we will continue collecting clothes, but cannot receive money. however, we will advice people who collect funds about when we go to chittagong next and how they can possibly go with us, etc. we hope that we together with the blog community can develop and share a good model of how we best can help affected families in a way which is best for them, being there for them over time while they fight their way through their trauma and back to life.