sentences:  Peaceful protests in Yerevan supporting the Karabakh Armenians were met with anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait.Compounding Armenia's problems was a devastating earthquake in 1988 with a moment magnitude of 7.2.Gorbachev's inability to alleviate any of Armenia's problems created disillusionment among the Armenians and fed a growing hunger for independence.