The original buildings, constructed from dung and straw, tended to collapse whenever hit by one of the country's frequent earth tremors.
Upping the ante, the energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who heads Syriza's militant wing, sent tremors through the party last week, saying it should step down rather than impose policies it had not been elected to enforce.
All the clues are there: the sulphuric stench of rotten eggs, dead birds falling from the trees, and tremors deep beneath the earth.
The prospect – one that would bring the crisis full circle three years after George Papandreou also proposed holding a referendum – has been quick to send tremors through Europe.
The earthquake was also felt in India's capital of New Delhi and several other Indian cities. India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, called a meeting of top government officials to review the damage and how to respond in parts of India that felt strong tremors.
There had been some warning tremors during the preceding two years, as profit margins on Sony's consumer-electronics products began to fall.
Economically, too, Britain's oil and gas industry is much mightier than it seems but it is an unruly giant, and not always benign.With Britain's economy hovering around zero growth, tremors in the North Sea can have a big effect.
It is prone to earth tremors, and the tidal wave was not its first.
Icelandic investors have also forayed abroad: the prime minister, Halldor Asgrimsson, says that they now employ over 100,000 people in other countries, 70% of them in Britain.Yet over the past two weeks severe financial tremors have jolted Iceland.
On March 9th in the south-eastern province of Siirt, his wife's home area, he was elected with a resounding 85% of the vote.In this section The tremors of Balkan history Soon it will be dispensing justice Against America?
The tremors at the Rajasthan testing ground must have set Toynbee spinning.Much Indian writing about India dwells today on the gulf between the vision of its founders and what their country has become not that Gandhi and Nehru had the same vision: Gandhi had no use for industrialisation or the state, both of which the westernised Nehru thought indispensable.
