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Today's Makeup Monday was specially created for the launch of Etsy Weddings. I'm a longtime shopper and occasional seller on Etsy, so I was really excited to be a part of this (and even more excited to see upcoming features)! You can read the step by step instructions on the site, but here are a few extra tips for your wedding day makeup:
- Don't stray too far from the makeup routine you are comfortable with; just perfect it. You want to look like you!
- Avoid products with SPF on your big day; it doesn't photograph well. If you've ever wondered why your face looks ghostly pale in flash photographs, it's probably because you had SPF in your moisturizer or makeup.
- Keep blotting papers nearby to soak up excess oil without having to cake on makeup.
- Do a test run before the day of your wedding. Check the makeup in natural light, artificial light, and with flash.
- And of course, go for the waterproof mascara and liner. That should go without saying;)


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(Pocket-lint) - Dyson is famed for its vacuum cleaners, but the biggest problem is that the Dyson offerings have always been big, really big.
The Dyson DC26 aims to change that and has been specifically designed for "city dwellers that inhabit small spaces". In real terms that means all those people that are squashed into a studio flat in north London or an apartment in Manhattan.
Amazingly according to research by Dyson, 90% of Brits are city dwellers with 2.3 million homes in the UK smaller than 50 square metres. So there must be a need...
You'll be pleased to hear that the DC26 is small, A4 paper small, with the footprint of the main vacuum cleaner unit not taking up any space outside that boundary. It's an impressive feat but does it reduce the performance, after all, what's the point of having a vacuum cleaner that easily fits in your cupboard but won't suck the dirt out of your carpet?
Before we cover that question, what about the design? In keeping with Dyson's approach on previous models, the "Cyclone" cylinder system takes centre stage. The design is striking, as it is cute, with the whole thing looking like it's gone through that Willy Wonka shrinking machine. The bucket holds a good deal of dirt (enough to do a whole three bedroom house) and is easily detached for emptying.
Around the back you get a big, red power button and a retractable power cord. The cord is around 18ft (not long we know) but remember this is designed for flats that aren't that big anyway, so 18ft should be enough to cover any room from a wall socket.
Rather than sport the company's "ball" technology you get two wheels, but again that's okay because this isn't an upright cleaner so manoeuvrability isn't as important for the base unit.
Removable washable filters are buried in there too, hidden behind compartments that are easy to access.
Where the diminutive size is destroyed, however, is in the accompanying flexible pipe making it not much smaller than the DC22 baby compact. It's long and doesn't really have anywhere to go. It's also not detachable (it is, but not easy enough to do every time) which means you've got to cope with that in the cupboard as well. Combine that with the solid cleaning rod and the cleaning head and all the work Dyson has done to create a small main unit has been lost. Okay so you could store the rod and head in another cupboard, and coil the flexible pipe around the cleaner, but it's not ideal is it?
Design and size aside, does it actually clean? Well the answer is yes. We put it to the test on a number of surfaces - carpet, rug, floorboards and slate tiles and in all environments the Dyson performed. The suck is good enough to pick up light dirt, but it's not going to lift your carpet.
In fairness, the chances are, if you are in a flat you'll have got rid of most of your dirt in the corridor anyway. That's not to say that it won't clean your house, but it's not going to compare against something bigger and more powerful. Sorry Dyson.
The Dyson City DC26 is designed for those who live in a small urban space. Dyson, through a feat of engineering, have created a small vacuum cleaner (probably one of the smallest we've seen) that still gets the job done without having to revert to one of those Ewbank cleaners with no power and hours of pushing it around.
So should you get one? At £249.99 you are paying the usual Dyson premium, and unfortunately while small, that impressive A4 claim is lost once you add all the accessories into the mix.

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You're familiar with Dark Side of the Locker Room. Consider this the THX Edition of Dark Side. Our storyteller is Padgett Powell, author of Edisto, The Interrogative Mood, and the following dispatch from Plymouth, Fla., which was spiked by ESPN.
In 1995, on assignment for ESPN's Total Sports magazine, Powell spent a few days in Plymouth, hometown of Warren Sapp. Sapp was then an NFL prospect approaching Draft Day under a cloud of assorted drug insinuations. The Saturday that Powell was in town, Sapp was selected 12th by Tampa Bay. Powell's story never ran. Here it is in full, followed by a postscript in which the author explains the story behind the story — and the perils of smoking powerful weed with your sources.
* * *
At the north end of Plymouth, Fla., under trees on the corner of the U.S. 441 and Hermit Smith Road, Warren Sapp's cousin Thomas McCrary sells barbecue from three handmade iron cookers. One of them he had made for $35; he supplied everything (tank, wheels, pipe) except the expanded metal for the grill. The other two larger ones cost just over $100. If you order a rib sandwich, Wonza McCrary will get out a polystyrene tray and put a sheaf of wax paper on it and a piece of bread and Thomas McCrary will put a generous pile of ribs on the bread and paint the ribs with a 3-inch paint brush and his private sauce and Wonza will put another piece of bread on the painted ribs and fold over the wax-paper sheaf and wrap it all in foil and add napkins and slip the package into a paper sack and crimp the mouth shut for $5.
"You make that sauce yourself?"
"Oh yeah."
"What's in it?"
"A little of this, a little of that."
You and Thomas McCrary chuckle. "Are you open after dark?" This, unlike the sauce question, is not deliberately naive: you want to buy dinner later.
"No," Thomas McCrary says, with a wave of his arm at the tree branches overhead, "my lights are out." In the branches no lights are strung; there is no source of power on this public right-of-way corner if there were. You both laugh.
Plymouth calls itself "The Foliage Capital of the World." In twenty-four hours, Warren Sapp—one of its denizens—will make millions of dollars in the NFL draft. Many of his friends work in ornamental plant nurseries for between $150 and $200 a week. Many of them like the jobs because they can walk to them and they cannot afford a car.
"When did you know Warren Sapp was going to be a world-class football player?"
"Well, he played dirt-road football around here," Thomas McCrary says, "but I still didn't know he's gone do that."
I suggest that Warren Sapp can buy him a barbecue restaurant after tomorrow.
"Don't you say that," Wonza says. "We don't want to intimidate him."
"I don't want a restaurant," Thomas says. "They got lights. I like to pack up and go. " Indeed, his is already beginning to load up the cookers and their cooler into a flatbed trailer. "No overhead," Thomas McCrary says. "Done with it."
* * *
Jim Kraemer, the coach at Apopka High School, was the new offensive coordinator for Sapp's last year. To look at him you see a good athlete who wants to be the best coach he can be and make other good athletes. He is a man who can use words like pride and next level and excellence in creditable ways. We are in a small chalkboard room adjacent the team weight room. On the walls are schemes and play names and rudimentary plays; new audibles are being introduced—Outlaw, Motown, Boot, Cadillac— and some things that may not be audibles called Arc and Quake and Ted.
Warren Sapp was a tight end in Kraemer's offense, but on occasional defensive plays coaches saw him do things "not necessarily coachable. Headsy things. He threw his weight around and was unblockable. He is a super-smart football player." As we speak, Sapp's drug-test celebrity is mushrooming: the seven Miami positives are being released. But we are at this moment aware only of the initial report from the combine.
Coach Kraemer doesn't like that report, and he really doesn't like the sloppiness of retracting the initial combine cocaine report. Local damage has been done. "And marijuana," he says, "is not right." He gestures toward the weight room—not dissimilar from Thomas McCrary's wave at imaginary lights in the trees—where even on the uncustomary no-practice Friday afternoon a few players are clanging around, the oddly soothing clanging of olympic plates: "They see one of their heroes . . . . It's a dead fight to keep that stuff out of here."
I tell Coach Kraemer I'm headed out to Plymouth to see if it's asleep or abuzz about Warren Sapp. "Oh"—he pauses, I think to question this word I've come up with—"it's abuzz all right. We take—this whole area—great pride in our players going to the next level." From Apopka High are pros James McKnight, Derek Clark, Sammy Smith, Aaron Jones. Apopka is 36-3 in the last three years under Jim Kraemer.
"Let's see," he says. "It's Friday night. Out there under the tree there'll be some alcohol, and some other things."
"Yes, sir."
Coach Kraemer is a man who is in a personal professional dead fight with other things, and they are on his mind.
* * *
The tree is at the south end of Plymouth, about a 220-yard dash from Thomas and Wonza McCrary's barbecue cookers at the north end. The trip is like going from Ray Charles to Snoop Dogg. I get a case of beer. A white man in this situation is a geek unless he is a cop, and I elect to be a geek. I carry this case of beer as a kind of public-relations armor plate.
The first two fellows I come to I tell my business: "ESPN wants to know what y'all think about Warren Sapp tomorrow. You want to talk about that?"
"I don't mind," one of them, Spence, says.
"Good. ESPN sent a case of beer."
"Did ESPN send Olde English?"
"I'm afraid ESPN sent Busch."
We laugh. I explain that I saw people at the tree drinking Busch earlier in the day, when I got the barbecue from Sapp's cousin.
"Yeah," Spence concedes, "they some of them drink that."
"How about Warren Sapp tomorrow?"
"Well, he's slipped some around here."
"Around here?"
It is 6:30, and there are about 50 people drinking beer under the tree.
"Up or down?"
"Down." This still baffles me, but I will see things that make some sense of it.
"What do you all do out here?"
"Just drinkin and chillin and conversatin," Spence says. "If you don't see someone under that tree after work, something's wrong."
"Warren has slipped because of this drug stuff?"
"Mmm hmm."
I explain to Spence that I think the NFL knows about drugs—it is not the Ladies' Aid—and they will know what to make of Sapp's problem if he has one. Spence accedes to this. "You ought to talk to Eugene, his cousin," Spence says. "If he's in his right mind. But he may have already had a couple." He accepts a Busch and I move on.
I offer a beer to Warren Sapp's cousin Eugene, who wants to be a farmer so badly that he is called Farmer Gene and sometimes just Farmer. He won't take one.
"I don't have anything to say."
"You don't have anything to say?"
"Hey, I'm not talking about anything but Warren's being at the top of the draft tomorrow."
"I was told you're very proud of him."
Nothing. The beer is getting heavy.
"Maybe I have bad information—"
"Maybe you do. I am not releasing any of that information until the family returns from New York."
"What information?"
Farmer Gene has walked off. I hold 23 beers in the bag. I offer them to some women sitting on a picnic table. No thanks.
"Hey! Hey!" It's a man about 30 yards away leaning on a car.
"You trying sell that beer?"
"No! I'm trying to give it away."
"Well put it on the hood of this car."
This I do. This is more like it. This is Wilfred Neal. He is a very gracious host. We talk football, Warren. We talk white guys, being the police, they come through here prowling in a car, but maybe not they come out with a case of beer. Maybe.
I empty my wallet to show lack of badge, which we have heard means you can't be a cop, legally. Then, Wilfred points out, how could you identify yourself to other cops something went wrong? Then again how could you have i.d. on you if you under cover? We finally don't know what any of it means, but emptying my wallet has been a nice gesture, and some beers finally get taken. It is hoped that Sapp, whom they call Carlos, will do something for the community—Wilfred leaves this vague: "Something for the young people." Another fellow hopes Carlos will help with their flag-football program.
"You mean," I ask, "buy a field?"
"No. Line it out." He is hoping merely for chalk.
I offer a beer to a young man who comes up and leans on the car as if he wants one but he won't take one. He has a little of Mike Tyson's early diffidence and an incipient Herschel Walker trapezius and neck. To my offer, he smiles.
"No no," Wilfred Neal explains. "He's young."
"Seventeen." Looking at him, 210 or so, the neck, a little gold in his mouth, I missed it. This is a football hopeful, a prospect, and he will not have a beer on Friday night. Warren Sapp has slipped some around here. This is what Spence may have meant.
Two acres of foliage-nursery workers conversatin and chillin and drinkin and some other things on Friday night stand as chaperone to the 17-year-old prospect among them who can bench 300 pounds and who, if he acts right, can maybe get out of this mess. That is how serious they are about it: a boy among them—not a son but a prospect—will not be allowed one beer that has fallen from the sky onto a car hood on a wild Friday night. And he will not protest. He is not going to slip some around here.
There is nothing wrong with what is loftily called, by those who do not need it after a day of work, substance abuse, but there is plenty wrong with it if it cuts off your escape from that live-long day of work.
The following day, at noon, as the draft begins, Wilfred Neal is half-in, half-out of his girlfriend's car trying to fix her radio so he can go fishing. It's a new used car and he has discovered in it some kind of keypad on a cable wired into the dash which he cannot determine the purpose of. He decides to leave it alone.
Wilfred Neal goes fishing, Thomas and Wonza McCrary are unpacked and selling barbecue on the corner, Farmer Gene is not releasing any information, and as far as I know there is not a large party watching the draft on ESPN anywhere in Plymouth. As far as I know, and as far as one can tell, there isn't ESPN in Plymouth, Fla., home of Carlos Sapp.
When Warren Sapp goes No. 12 to the local and lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the public expressions of disappointment are only on the faces of the Jets fans who were chanting "We want Sapp!" until the Jets too passed on him. In Plymouth people are congregating for some chillin and conversatin under the tree and do not seem aware of what has befallen Carlos.
* * *
This piece was commissioned by a then-new magazine, I believe called Total Sports, under the auspices of ESPN, when it was known only that Warren Sapp had had a troubling drug result at the NFL combine. As I recall, cocaine use had been alleged, and there was some general poohpoohing of that in a kind of accession that Sapp might have used some marijuana but that the cocaine report was bogus, and the NFL was in a backpedaling mode of some sort, or Sapp and his agent wanted them to be, and so forth. In this weather it was being alleged that Sapp might fall from No. 1 in the draft to 2 or 3–-some rather insignificant slippage.
While I was actually on the ground in Plymouth being regarded suspiciously it was coming out that Sapp had tested positive for something like five drug tests at Miami over the years and that the coach there had buried the tests, and the story was becoming much larger, involving not a "mistake" by a player at the combine but big trouble at Miami and perhaps large-scale corruption in college football and in the NCAA and–-and, well, the story was suddenly much vaster than what did Carlos Sapp's homeboys think about his hitting the Big Time tomorrow, which is what I had gone to Plymouth to unearth, that and only that.
The piece was written in this stillborn moment between the two stories, one small and one not, and the editor at ESPN I was dealing with rejected the piece as no longer relevant in view of the new landscape. I could not disagree and was more or less happy that I was not asked to go get Dennis Erickson and write about so much more than I had agreed to write about. As I recall, the editor generously paid me a full fee for the piece, not just a kill fee, since these developments were not my fault. I of course have no real idea what was objected to in the piece, or by whom, but suspect the explanation, while perfectly sensible, was not all there was to it. Anyone who has done work with magazines will know what I mean: no one knows what runs, or how much runs, or why.
Now, the real center of the story takes place off page. After I got people accepting the beer ESPN sent, it was perceived that I was not partaking myself, and this re-upped the suspicion that I was some kind of NFL narc or spy or possibly a real narc, somehow. Each time I refused my own beer this pressure increased, until finally my host offered me some weed. I felt I could not refuse this and maintain my integrity. (My abstinence is from booze, not lesser drugs.) I assented and my host went home and got some doobie and came back and he had a hit and I had a hit and he one and I one–-and suddenly I was going to have trouble even walking. I took stock. I had my motel room already and thought if I set out right away I would still be able to find it; it was two blocks away. I said to Wilfred, "Man, I got to go." He said, without smirk, "I heard that."
I clopped across the drinkin and chillin yard, taking very high awkward careful steps like a stringed mannequin, past all these brothers and sisters who were not sure how honest I was or what I was, to my car, got in it, got it running, and ran it slowly to that motel, and got all my change and went to the drink machines and bought as many sodas as I could with the change at hand, and got back in the room and locked it and turned on the TV for company, and flipping through channels discovered nearly all of them at that moment showing preachers or Pat Robertson or Charlton Heston as Moses, and found that if I lay diagonal on the bed and face-down and pointed the soles of my feet at the TV I could get a relieving kind of energy from the TV, a soothing kind of balm wave that calmed me down, and started in on the sodas, and a Randall knife I had bought earlier in the day (before I had talked to Kraemer the high school coach or been to the barbecue stand to scope the Plymouth tree), for which I had paid $250 and of which I had been most proud, a thing of real beauty, with its solid tool steel and leather aura inviting you to heft it and thumb the edge and give the sheath a snifferoo and admire the work and the Randall family and just feel good about things, all things—suddenly this knife, without actually moving, levitated from the table and pointed at me and made this accusation: You have spent $250 on this, a knife, when you have two daughters to put through school, you are not presenting a very good picture of a very good responsible adult person, and the phone rang and it was a woman I had called earlier whom I had gone out with one night about five years before and did not know very well and she told me she had gotten married and that my seeing her back then five years ago had been useful in her breaking out of the funk she had been in because of her divorce and there was Pat Robertson or Moses and the knife, the hives, I had to get diagonal and couldn't get off the phone or remember from one sentence to the next what I had said to the woman, and somehow it all passed, and I survived.
The next day when Wilfred Neal is perplexed by the strange keypad device resembling a computer mouse and wired into his girlfriend's car, I am standing in the sun beside the car shaking a little in the bright light and more or less seeing in that weird keypad a symbol for all of our not knowing, his, mine, everyone's, and am reduced to the point that it would be a relief were I a cop, and Neal is, I think, ahead of me in this surrender; it is okay with him too whatever I am, whatever he is, there are forces beyond us, let's do the best we can, have a girlfriend if we can, go fishing, be cool my brother. Let's let Carlos play football or do dope we do not care, we can not care, hallelujah. I think I called into the house to the girlfriend that the pot made me lose my mind last night and she laughed inside the house. Out there in the hot yard, we heard her laugh.
Padgett Powell has published five novels and two collections of short stories, his latest the novel The Interrogative Mood. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Grand Street, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, and elsewhere. His work appears in the Best American Short Stories and Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He has won the Prix de Rome and a Whiting Writers Award. He teaches writing at the University of Florida. He has taught also at the Sewanee Writers Conference and at the Summer Literary Seminars in Russia and Kenya.
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European Archbishops Warn of Increasingly Harsh Attacks on the Church
The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says media criticisms are provoking 'artificially generated anger' that sometimes is suggestive of 'a pogrom atmosphere.'
VATICAN CITY — Archbishop Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has said members of the Western media appear "ridden" with attacks against the Catholic Church, where an "artificially generated anger" is growing that "occasionally reminds one of a pogrom atmosphere."
In a Feb 2 interview with the German daily newspaper Die Welt that has caused quite a stir in that country, Archbishop Müller spoke of a "concerted campaign" to discredit the Church on the Internet and television that is resulting in open attacks against priests.
He also observed that those attacking the Church borrow arguments used by totalitarian ideologies — such as communism and Nazism — against Christianity.
Elsewhere in the interview, the CDF prefect said the Church is not suffering from too much "centralism," but, rather, not enough unity.
"The centrifugal forces are too strong," he said. "Rome is not a bureaucratic center for the Church, but, rather, guarantees orientation towards the successors of Peter."
He regretted statistics that show that 80% of baptized German Catholics no longer participate in the Eucharist on Sunday and argued that the question of faith in God must be placed in the center of life.
Asked if he thought, after seven years of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy, the view of the Church in Germany had changed from being, in the words of Cardinal Ratzinger in 1988, "lukewarm and boring," he said it depended on how the Church is considered. Sentiment appears hostile if one only views the Church from the perspective of public opinion, he pointed out, but he also stressed dialogue is a good thing, so long as the essentials are discussed and not the "same problems dished out again and again."
He cited the impossibility of women priests and the acceptance of same-sex partnerships ("They can in no way be equated to marriage") and said that the discipline of priestly celibacy, which precludes a married priesthood, corresponds to the example and words of Jesus and has a particular expression in the Latin Church.
"Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom of God is rooted in the Gospel," he said.
Turning to authentic reform of the Church, he advised looking at the example of true reformers, such as Sts. Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, as well as the Council of Trent, with its renewal of popular piety.
Archbishop Picketed
Evidence of the hostility toward the Church that Archbishop Müller discussed was on display in full force recently in Trieste, Italy.
On Jan. 12, the archdiocesan residence was besieged after Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi defended the Church's teaching on marriage in a published interview.
Around 200 homosexual-rights activists from the Italian group Arcigay surrounded the residence, hurling insults and causing so much commotion that the archbishop was forced to seek refuge indoors.
"The first thing I did was go to the chapel, to pray at vespers, and then I started to read a thick book by Rodney Stark, the great American sociologist, entitled The Victory of Reason," he said. "The book analyzes, among other things, the many persecutions suffered by Christians in 2,000 years of history [and] demonstrates, with a wealth of data, that, in the end, the persecutors pass away while Christians continue, because the persecutions purify them and make them stronger."
The protesters called Archbishop Crepaldi "homophobic," "intolerant" and "racist" — despite the fact the archbishop strongly fought against racism when he served eight years as secretary at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He also rejected the accusation of homophobia, saying the protest passes through that pretext of hate directed against homosexuals to an assertion of the "rights of the family and marriage."
"The ultimate goal of these campaigns is to undermine what is a cornerstone of civilization, the concept of the family, founded on marriage between a man and a woman, equating it to other forms of cohabitation," he said in the interview, which was originally published by the weekly Trieste newspaper Vita Nuova.
Archbishop Crepaldi said that anyone like himself willing to state publicly the Catholic position that the true family is only one founded on marriage between a man and a woman could eventually become subject to criminal proceedings and prosecution. "If one who belongs to the Catholic Church travels this road and professes this doctrine, though not only this one, he will become party to criminal punishment, even jail."
"This insidious program, disguised as progressive and libertarian, will put the muzzle on everyone, depriving us of freedom," he said, adding that it is "ironic that the Church, which has given the world a higher conception of incomparable values of the human person and taught it the duty of respect, equality and fraternity, has come to be described as racist and discriminating. These are the quirks of history."
Tough Times Ahead
Quoting friends at the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, he warned, "Gender-style persecution against Christianity has begun, and it will be tough."
Said Archbishop Crepaldi, "There will be militant [Christians], those who seek compromise, those who cheat; there will be faithful, and there will also be martyrs."
Edward Pentin is the Register's Rome correspondent.


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Earthquake overview : A very strong damaging earthquake occurred in the Van province in eastern Turkey. The earthquake was felt in all the neighboring countries.
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M 5.7 2011/11/09 19:23 Depth 4.8 km EASTERN TURKEY
09:23:35 PM at epicenter
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Extremely dangerous aftershock, probably creating more damage and at least additional injured people if the preliminary data are confirmed.
KOERI Turkey has reported a magnitude (ML) of 5.6 at a depth of 5 km / still very dangerous. 7 minutes later a 4.5 aftershock occurred in the same area. Again a lot of misery for the people already hard hit during the M 7.2 earthquake.
17 km (10 miles) S (174°) from Van, Turkey
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area
Update 08/11 - 21:30 UTC A large aftershock has hit Van Province.
It has been given a magnitude 5.5 from KOERI at 4.3 km depth. (very close to Van)
A body wave magnitude 5.6 has been given from USGS at 9 km depth. (32km from Van).
This aftershock has been 14+ days after the mainshock of Mw7.2 and brings the total aftershocks in the M5-6 range up to 8.
This has a large chance of demolishing or further damaging existing homes. It is also potentially unsafe for those in moderately damaged buildings.
At last count:-
The current number of houses collapsed and damaged are as follows according to TRCS:- Collapsed - 2900 (in the order of 19000-26000 people)
Severely Damaged - 25,750 (Uninhabitable) (in the order of 190000-265000 people)
Moderately Damaged/Slightly Damaged - 40,800.
Undamaged - 33,422.
Update 07/11 - 04:43 UTC With the end of detailed analysis work from the CEDIM Forensic Earthquake Analysis Group in conjunction with us, we will now continue updating this page.
The current death toll is at 604, with 3 bodies having been found.
The injury toll was in the order of 4152.
The number of homeless as calculated through the CEDIM methodology for the current building losses is around 241,000 (up from around 183,000).
Currently 4,448 search and rescue, 1814 medical personnel, 20 search dogs, 668 construction equipment and vehicles including 179 ambulances, 146 generators, 79 projectors, 151 portable toilets, 53,949 tents (including 18,850 from overseas aid), 54 collective shelter tent, 109 general purpose tents, 60 prefabricated houses, 2,310 Mevlana houses, 283,551 blankets (including 93,980 from overseas aid), 1,386 quilts, 37 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 8,701 catalytic stoves (684 from international aid), 5,792 sleeping bags, and 1 mobile kitchen are present.
The current number of houses collapsed and damaged are as follows according to TRCS:- Collapsed - 2779 (in the order of 18000-25000 people)
Severely Damaged - 21,674 (Uninhabitable) (in the order of 150000-225000 people)
Moderately Damaged/Slightly Damaged - 34,924.
Undamaged - 28,630.
The economic loss is predicted anywhere between 1 billion TRY and 4 billion TRY (555 million USD to 2.2 billion USD). Other estimates have been as high as USD 4 billion.
The GDP of Van Province was around USD 3.3 billion in 2011 for comparison. The damage will not exceed 100% of the province GDP according to historical evidence in CATDAT.
The aftershocks number has also increased to 2587, with some additional ones counted in the lower numbers. Sizes, ranging from M2 to 3 = 1265, ranging from M3 to 4 = 1080, ranging from M4 to 5 = 121, ranging from M5 to 6 = 7.
Update 30/10 - 17:34 UTC Unfortunately, today will be the last day for search and rescue in the region. Work will then begin on demolishing, recovery and rebuilding. It is thus unlikely that the number of people rescued will increase above 188.
Update 30/10 - 17:27 UTC The death toll has passed 600, and is now at 601. The number of tents provided has increased to 43,367 (8,639 from international sources.). 165,531 blankets have been provided. That is a lot of blankets if you can imagine the weight! But remember that it is very cold in the Van Province at the moment, as it is quite high up! See http://www.wettergefahren-fruehwarnung.de/. The aftershocks number has also increased to 1561, with some additional ones counted in the lower numbers.
Sizes, ranging from M2 to 3 = 556,
ranging from M3 to 4 = 832,
ranging from M4 to 5 = 108,
ranging from M5 to 6 = 7
Update 30/10 - 12:00 UTC Injury count remains at 4152 injured.
596 people have been killed. 14 have been found since yesterday.
Currently 4,440 search and rescue, 1710 medical personnel, 18 search dogs, 651 construction equipment and vehicles including 146 ambulances, 143 generators, 77 projectors, 95 portable toilets, 42,711 tents (including 8,166 from overseas aid), 54 collective shelter tent, 69 general purpose tents, 65 prefabricated houses, 2,300 Mevlana houses, 160,360 blankets, 1,179 quilts, 37 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 6,899 catalytic stoves, 5,792 sleeping bags, and 1 mobile kitchen are present.
The number of aftershocks is now 1400.
Update 29/10 - 12:00 UTC Another person has been saved according to the AFAD statistics with the no. of rescues moving up to 188. Further details are not to hand.
A big change in the injury count has it now at 4152 injured.
582 people have been killed.
Currently 4,440 search and rescue, 904 medical personnel, 18 search dogs, 651 construction equipment and vehicles including 146 ambulances, 143 generators, 77 projectors, 95 portable toilets, 40,721 tents (including 6,088 from overseas aid), 54 collective shelter tent, 69 general purpose tents, 65 prefabricated houses, 2,300 Mevlana house, 159,360 blankets, 1,179 quilts, 37 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 6,899 catalytic stoves, 5,792 sleeping bags, and 1 mobile kitchen are present.
The number of aftershocks is now 1301.
Update 29/10 - 07:45 UTC There have been 865 aftershocks at the moment over M3 that have occurred. An additional 317 just under M3 have occurred.
Update 29/10 - 07:40 UTC
-576 people have been killed, with no number of how many more are under the rubble at the moment.
-Over 55 countries have given aid, including 3548 tents out of the 35257 tents provided so far.
-From the 11232 damaged buildings that have been examined : 6017 have been found to be uninhabitable affecting around 8321 households = around 60000 people.
The other 5215 have been damaged but are habitable. The group of almost 200 staff continues to search and do preliminary assessment of the damaged buildings.
Update 28/10 - 13:16 UTC
-575 people have been killed.
Update 28/10 - 10:16 UTC Updated statistics:-
- 573 people have been killed
- 2608 people have been injured
- 187 people have been rescued so far from the rubble.
More grim news on the loss front from the region:
From 10621 buildings examined:
-5739 have been found to be uninhabitable (8026 households - which could mean around 60000 people).
-4882 buildings have been damaged but are habitable (7660 households).
In terms of aftershocks, 1136 have occurred so far.
Sizes, ranging from M2 to 3 = 312,
ranging from M3 to 4 = 640,
ranging from M4 to 5 = 96,
ranging from M5 to 6 = 7
Update 28/10 - 07:28 UTC
A young boy had a lucky escape when Turkish SAR personnel (Search and Rescue) could free him from the debris after being buried for 100 hours.
Update 28/10 - 07:24 UTC
Updated statistics from Turkey -
- 570 people have been killed
- 2555 people have been injured
- 187 people have been rescued so far from the rubble (a 13 year old boy was rescued this morning)
- 55 to 60 countries have put forward their assistance.
- There are now a total of 4,136 search and rescue officers, 904 medical personnel, 18 search dogs, 651 construction equipment and vehicles, including 146 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers (air ambulances), 86 generators, 77 projectors, 95 portable toilets, 37 mobile kitchens, 3051 kitchen sets, 6798 catalytic stoves and a mobile oven in the disaster area.
-34,250 tents have been distributed. 10 collective shelter tents, 60 prefabricated houses, 2200 Mevlana (translation needed) houses have also been erected. 135,822 blankets, 1,179 quilts and 5,609 sleeping bags have also been distributed.
Update 28/10 - 07:25 UTC
A Belgian special B-Fast emergency team has been send to the Ercis area to build a tenting camp for approx. 2000 families. The team, which consists of 13 skilled aid workers, will return when the job is finished
Update 28/10 - 04:36 UTC
550 people have been killed as of last night. The injured count of 2300 and the rescued count of 185 remains.
Turkey becomes "one heart for Van Province"
A relief program held for Van last night and broadcasted live simultaneously by 19 different media establishments managed to collect 62 million TL (US$35mn) in aid and to display a beautiful example of unity during this time of deep distress.
Update 27/10 - 16:58 UTC
535 people have now been killed.
Update 27/10 - 16:50 UTC
At this moment 29371 tents and 127014 blankets have been distributed
Aid from other countries :
Azerbaijan, search and rescue team of 140 people, 1,250 tents, 700 beds, 40 generators, 5,000 blankets, 40 pieces of kitchen equipment
France 490 tents,
Italy 200 tents,
Russia 284 tents,
Kazakhstan, 60 tents, 300 blankets, 300 bed, 60 stoves, Ukraine 4 x general purpose tents
Israel sent 5 prefabricated houses
Belgium tents for 2000 people + support team
Update 27/10 - 14:25 UTC
Some preliminary statistics on building losses have occurred from the 20-person technical committee supported by 200 technical staff.
7069 buildings have been examined in the central district of Van Province, villages and neighbourhoods in the central District of Ercis.
3713 buildings have been deemed to be uninhabitable affecting 5250 households. With an average household population of around 7.6, this could mean that at least 40000 could be homeless from building damage.
2209 additional buildings have been damaged, but are still habitable. Preliminary assessment continues.
Update 27/10 - 14:20 UTC AFAD has updated their statistics, with:
- 534 dead and 2300 injured.
- 185 people have been pulled from the rubble alive
- 13 million TL (around $7 million US) has been sent so far in terms of emergency relief efforts.
- 8.6 million TL (just under $5 million US) has been donated via charity so far.
- There are now a total of 3,826 search and rescue officers, 904 medical personnel, 18 search dogs, 651 construction equipment and vehicles, including 146 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers (air ambulances), 46 generators, 77 projectors, 95 portable toilets, 37 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 6,359 catalytic stoves and a mobile oven in the disaster area.
-25,185 tents have been distributed. 10 collective shelter tents, 60 prefabricated houses, 90 Mevlana (translation needed) houses have also been erected. 109,986 blankets, 1,150 quilts and 5,109 sleeping bags have also been distributed.
-3 meals a day are being provided with distribution of hot meals food etc.
-30 field tents have been set up for public services and psychosocial trauma support.
-International aid has been accepted with many donations coming from many different nations. We will list these in a coming report.
-Given the poorness of the region even before the disaster, food issues are a problem.
-Related ministries, search and rescue, temporary housing, debris removal, health care, psychosocial support in order to ensure uninterrupted work, disaster and emergency centers have been set in operation until further notice on the basis of 24/7. i.e. round the clock support.
Update 27/10 - 06:20 UTC : There are now a total of 3,826 search and rescue officers, 904 medical personnel, 18 search dogs, 651 construction equipment and vehicles, including 146 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers (air ambulances), 46 generators, 77 projectors, 95 portable toilets, 37 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 6,359 catalytic stoves and a mobile oven in the disaster area.
23,137 tents have been distributed. 10 collective shelter tents, 60 prefabricated houses, 90 Mevlana (translation needed) houses have also been erected. 108,486 blankets, 1,150 quilts and 5,109 sleeping bags have also been distributed.
People continue to be found under the wreckage at the 52, 66 and 72 hr marks.
Update 27/10 - 00:20 UTC : Unfortunately our predictions for severe damage in the countryside have come true. The aerial pictures from this collection are giving a sense of the damage. A lot of houses have been completely destroyed. Click here for the series of aerial pictures.
Update 20:43 UTC : At 19:00 Turkish time, a spokesman of the government has announced that the fatalities number increased to 481. The number of injured remains, as expected, at 1,650
Update 15:35 UTC
471 dead and 1650 injured have been reported from AFAD in Turkey. Economic losses are still predicted to be between 500 and 1000 million USD and deaths predicted to be between 700 and 1000 (ELER Original Estimate).
5 million TL has been pledged so far in the government appeal. (USD2.8 million).
Total Relief:
3,816 search and rescue officers
886 medical personnel
18 search dogs
593 construction equipment and vehicles, including 145 ambulances and
7 air ambulances (rescue choppers),
11 mobile hospitals,
33 generators,
75 projectors,
95 portable toilets,
18,722 tents,
10 collective shelter tents,
60 prefabricated houses,
84,945 blankets,
1,130 quilts,
36 mobile kitchens,
3,051 kitchen sets,
5,139 catalytic stoves,
1,545 sleeping bags,
and a mobile oven.
Update 12:35 UTC : TRT reported that Search and Rescue work ended in Van. The authorities have ordered to start removing the debris.
Search and Rescue operations in Ercis are however continuing.
Update 12:33 UTC : Prime Minister Erdogan who initiated a Van aid fund campaign, announced earlier today that the first day has resulted in 1, 728,000 Turkish Lire (979,862 US$).
declared that the first day of donations
Update 12:32 UTC : Another happy ending for 2 men which were found alive under the debris 66 hours after the earthquake.
Update 12:12 UTC : The number of +4 magnitude aftershocks is slowly decreasing.
Update 12:07 UTC : The government of Macedonia has announced that it will give 100,000 euro to the Van earthquake fund.
Update 08:39 UTC : The fatalities number has been further increased to 461. The number of injured people remains at 1,352. We do not expect that this number (injured) will rise further as almost all of the wounded people have arrived in the health centers.
Update 08:35 UTC : In total in the region, there are also 3,755 search and rescue staff, 860 medical personnel, 16 search dogs, 595 construction equipment and vehicles, including 140 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers, 33 generators and 95 portable toilets, and 60 prefabricated houses with provision for 3000 more. Also mobilized 76,560 blankets, 1120 food packages, 10,064 food parcels, 36 mobile kitchens, 3051 kitchen sets, 5139 catalytic stoves.
Update 26/10 - 03:18 UTC : 1.78 million TL (1 million USD) has been collected on the first day of the charity drive in Turkey. Coca-Cola has also put forward $1 million for the victims of the Van earthquake. The current death toll still remains at 459, with 1352 injured as of 19:00 Turkish Time yesterday.
200 technical staff are doing preliminary assessment of buildings.
There is currently a total of 3,755 search and rescue staff, 860 medical personnel, 16 search dogs, 595 construction equipment and vehicles, including 140 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers, 33 generators and 95 portable toilets, 15,379 tents, 60 prefabricated houses, 50,583 blankets, 1120 food packages , 10064 food parcels, 36 mobile kitchens, 3,051 kitchen sets, 5,139 stoves, catalytic, 425 sleeping bag, 1 mobile oven and 13 tons of provisions distributed.
Update 23:53 UTC : Japan will send the equivalent of 400,000 US$ worth of emergency relief supplies
Update 23:51 UTC : The Turkish army did fly in another 2,445 personnel to participate in all kind of support tasks.
678 aftershocks so far
Impressive numbers and a tragedy for the people of the greater Van province. Not alone was the mainshock so destructive, but people are condemned to stay as much as possible in the open. Even riskier it is for the SAR (Search and Rescue) personnel who are trying to free survivors with a lot of risk to their own life. Today alone we have noticed 21 aftershocks greater than magnitude 4.
Update : The number of fatalities has increased to 459 people
Aftershock Update : At least one building collapsed because of this new aftershock
Aftershock Update : The Search and rescue operations have been suspended for a while because of the safety of the SAR personnel
Aftershock Update : People in Van and Ercis panicked seriously with this new jolt
Aftershock Update : Due to the constant aftershocks, people are trying to avoid being at the inside of houses and buildings. They know very well that very powerful aftershocks are part of a major earthquake.
Aftershock Update : 70,000 people will have experienced a strong MMI VI shaking
Aftershock Update : Data from the other seismological agencies :
EMSC : 5.5 @ 10 km
GFZ : 5.5 @ 10 km
AFAD : 5.5 @ 18.28 km
The impact of this aftershock maybe a little weaker because all the other agencies are measuring a 5.5 magnitude.
Update 25/10 - 16:00 UTC : A new report is referring to a death toll of 432 and mentions the number of injured at 1,352
Update : The surveillance video below shows the severe to violent shaking during this earthquake. In some cases it can be seen that the P wave is only seconds before the S wave (reason : close to the epicenter) . 2 other aspects to be looked at are a) the way people react if the shaking begins and b) the different shaking of the buildings.
Update 25/10 - 15:30 UTC : The aftershocks have not yet ended since the mainshock. The last one, a shallow 5.7 magnitude shock may be generating even more damage. People are still afraid to go inside and this is bad news as the weather is forecasting rain and cold temperatures!
Update 09:20 UTC :
- As could be expected the death toll further increased to 366, 1,301 people are listed as injured and 2,262 houses / buildings have collapsed (only the fatalities number has increased since our report last night)
- Ercis: A pregnant woman and her 2 children have been freed from below the rubble 35 hours after the earthquake.
- Search and Rescue teams are working day and night to use every possible chance to rescue people. Late last night alone they saved 4 people.
Update 04:09 UTC :The Turkish Red Crescent distributed up to 13,000 tents in total, and was preparing to provide temporary shelter for around 40,000 people, although there were no reliable estimates of the number of people left homeless at this point.
Update 02:44 UTC : The current death toll is still reported as 279. 1301 injured, and 2202 buildings destroyed. Generally such disasters have taken around 30-50% of provincial GDP in the past, and using a factor system, it still seems that around $700 million-$1 billion USD is a reasonable estimate. 11 tons of food were prepared for the morning breakfast by Red Crescent. A total of 3071 search and rescue personnel have been sent to the region, 718 medical personnel, 12 search dogs, 496 construction equipment and vehicles, including 116 ambulances, 7 rescue choppers (ambulance), 33 generators, 95 mobile toilets, 8964 tents, 25229 blankets, 1120 food packages, 10064 food parcels, 21 mobile kitchens, 2619 kitchen sets, 4132 catalytic stoves.
Update 21:44 UTC :
- The area is still hit with continuous aftershocks, less powerful than yesterday but still strong enough to not trust the inside of the houses. People are warming up in the heat of a campfire and covered with sheets.
- A total of 11,274 tents have been transported to the earthquake area.
- We have seen NO video footage from the countryside, as id did not exist. Everybody in the press is focusing on Van and Ercis. the epicenter was however NOT in these 2 cities but in the countryside. The fatality figures also talk almost alone about Van and Ercis. Can somebody please give more detailed information on the many countryside villages.
- We are warmly surprised on the support from everywhere in the country. Lots of goods have been collected and send to the quake area and almost every province of the country is sending specialized SAR and medical personnel.
- Most of the current actions were only possible because the Van airport was not damaged and was only temporarily closed
- Prime Minister Erdogan is an example for all National leaders coping with earthquakes. We think he broke a record in visiting the earthquake area within 12 hours after the mainshock. Congratulations. Leadership is important in getting all people organized.
Important update 17:26 UTC : The ministry of the interior has released new numbers of the Van tragedy at 17:00 (5 PM) or 14:00 UTC. Dead: 279, injured: 1,300, collapsed buildings : 2,262 (intermediate report)
Update 15:58 UTC : The Turkish minister of the interior said that the fatalities list has grown to 272 (from 264). Ercis has counted 169 fatalities and Van 95, the remaining people are from a few other locations like Bitlis. In Ercis alone 790 people have been treated for all kind of injuries. The people who are still under the rubble of the collapsed buildings are not included in the fatalities number.
Update 14:58 UTC : We are of course constantly looking for more official information on the casualty numbers of the earthquake, but as far as we could trace, they have not changed yet. Independent news-facts are are mentioning more discovered bodies.
Update 14:53 UTC : The ministry of education just announced that 22 teachers have been killed by the earthquake (Van and Ercis combined). 8 students were also reportedly killed and 6 injured. Many schools in the area collapsed or have been seriously damaged.
Update 14:16 UTC : The GDP of Mus, Hakkari, Van and Bitlis together (4 provinces) was in the order of 8.66 billion TRY back in 2008 (around 6.45 billion USD 2008). 21.3% was Agriculture, around 15.8% was industry and 62.9% was services.
Update 13:52 UTC : 2 teachers have been found under the rubble in Ersic. The bar where they had frequented collapsed.
Update 12:00 UTC : Some positive news from the Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Bashir Atalay. He said in a press conference that the situation in 84 villages surrounding Ercis is now under control and that only 3 fatalities were reported. Of course a lot of damage and wounded, but the expected death toll would certainly be a lot better than computed in the theoretical damage / fatalities engines.
Update 11:45 UTC : 15 mosques were damaged and 10 Koran school students lost their life when a Koran school collapsed in Van.
Update 11:11 UTC : Until now almost all videos were showing Van damage. The video below is a report from Ercis, the town with the highest losses so far. You will see that some houses are still standing next to others changed into rubble. It looks to us that most of the collapsed buildings (not all, it is not that simple) were not build with enough earthquake resistant guidelines. In case of older buildings, we can still understand what happened, but some collapsed buildings (also in the Van videos) seem to be rather new.
Update 10:45 UTC : - The death toll has unfortunately risen to 264
- The Turkish Army is doing all it can to support the relief actions in sending more troops, more equipment like planes and helicopters
- World VIP's are presenting their support and condolences to the Turkish government and people.
- A lot of governments are offering aid and are willing to send additional SAR personnel if Turkey would need it
- The injured toll increased to 1300 and will certainly rise further
Update 09:55 UTC : NO COMMENT Video
Update 08:42 UTC : A man has succumbed to his injuries sustained, after being trapped for 15 hours with a broken leg, and had a heart attack. Because of the shock of the earthquake from normal life, heart attacks commonly occur at a greatly increased rate during earthquakes.
Update 08:30 UTC : Muş Alparslan Üniversitesinde (Alparslan University in Mus Province) has suspended classes for 2 days at their university due to the earthquake.
Update 08:00 UTC : The province of Muş has also had loss of life according to the governor there (reported through Turkish Press). This is further away than Bitlis. This means that 5 of the 7 provinces in the Eastern Anatolia region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi) have been affected. MUŞ has about 28815 buildings with 2448 insured leading to around 8.5% takeout for TCIP. This is the lowest in Eastern Anatolia.
Update 08:00 UTC : The Bingöl region (hit by a strong deadly earthquake in 2003) has sent 30 vehicles and 102 personnel to help their Van Province neighbours.
Update 07:57 UTC : 3 people (all female) have been among those rescued from a 6-storey collapsed building in Ercis. No other details were available. In other news, the Turkish Red Crescent has brought in an additional 7496 tents and 22229 blankets, showing the increased need for shelter from this earthquake.
Update 07:54 UTC : Ercis town where the biggest losses in the earthquake have occurred, are having problems moving with difficulty through the streets due to debris. Some buildings have collapsed and due to narrow roads and cars parked incorrectly this has prevented the movement of ambulances going fast. In some places, the soldiers are trying to give traffic orders. Ambulances from different cities and towns, are being affected due to the large movement of people around the area and the traffic jams.
Update 07:15 UTC : The latest data from the Turkish Insurance Compensation Pool showed that in Bitlis there are 28919 houses/buildings, of which 4047 have insurance (around 14%). The premium each year is 411433YTL. For VAN (Ercis and Van) which is much more affected by this quake, for the 64081 buildings, 7312 of them have TCIP insurance for earthquakes, equivalent to 11.4% with a 814670TL premium. HAKKARI which was also affected has 16314 houses/buildings with a much lower takeout of 1399 buildings. Only 8.6%, with 144469YTL premium.
In the 2003 Bingol earthquake, 468 claims gave 2850827YTL In the 2006 Hakkari earthquake, the average payout was 3500YTL per claim. In the 2011 Simav earthquake, the average payout was 7000YTL per claim. Assuming a max average of 10000YTL for this earthquake (some larger payouts for the totally collapsed buildings covered), a max. payout from TCIP is expected of around 40 million YTL, assuming 4000+ claims. Around 21.8 million US dollars. 1303 buildings are estimated to be severely damaged in Ercis with claims expected for these.
It is unclear currently how much additional insurance is located in this area of the world but the percentage would be reasonably low.
It is expected that the total direct economic loss from this earthquake will be in the order of $500-1000 million despite higher estimates from other sources.
A quick test: for a RC building of 150 square meters, in Ercis in Van, would be insured for a total of 88900YTL (48600USD) for a yearly premium of 111USD! It is definitely worth taking out insurance if you are in Turkey and own a building that can have TCIP insurance.
Update 07:00 UTC : We are still waiting on updated casualty figures. Please refer to the below 06:00UTC Summary for the latest info. Here is the CEDIM Taskforce Update 0900CET 24th October - Earthquake-report.com - which provides a nice summary of earthquake details. Thanks to Prof. Friedemann Wenzel from KIT and CEDIM for putting this together.
Update 06:40 UTC : In the following diagram from the CEDIM Forensic Disaster Analysis Group update to be published at 0900CET using the base KOERI map (courtesy KOERI), one can see the large difference between the various hypocenters. Hypocentral information is used in the first minutes to work out the extent of the damage and the location of the possible damage and casualties. This is only improved by having a greater density of seismological stations. In this case, the hypocenter of USGS was much closer to Van than that of KOERI which was located between Ercis and Van. So a note to all governments, please invest in seismological stations if you want accurate loss estimates early! Telecommunications generally do not work after an earthquake thus showing the need for these rapid loss systems like ELER, PAGER, WAPMERR etc.
Update 06:15 UTC : Most of the damage reports only mention the two major cities of Van and Ercis, however, the small towns near the epicentre must be presumed to be hard hit.
Summary 06:00 UTC :
-Earthquake had a magnitude (Mw=7.2, Ml=6.6-6.7) from USGS and KOERI.
-The epicentre was closer to Ercis than Van, which has reduced expected casualties from around 10000 to in the order of 1000. A value of 700-1000 deaths are expected from the ELER program.
-217 people reported killed (117 in Ercis, 100 in Van) (this does not include people killed in other municipalities as per previous reports)
-1090 people reported injured (740 in Ercis, 350 in Van)
-970 buildings/houses have been destroyed including around 80 multi-storey buildings in Ercis and a lesser number in Van.
-Relief staff continue to pull bodies and trapped victims from the wreckage. Unfortunately the cold weather will mean that survivors will die quicker than in warm conditions.
-A summary of the sent personnel from AFAD can be seen here.
-1584 search and rescue personnel. 491 medical personnel. 10 search dogs, 256 machinery and construction/demolition vehicles/equipment. 75 ambulances and 7 rescue choppers (helicopters). 20 generators, 95 portable toilets, 2546 tents, 7648 blankets, 1120 food packages, 10040 food parcels. 3 military cargo planes have transferred the personnel and materials.
-Buildings have also been destroyed in Bitlis including major damage to the Sports Center there.
-253 potentially felt aftershocks have occurred, with the highest magnitude aftershock coming at 11:45pm Local, with a Ml5.7, Mw6.0.
-Prime Minister Erdogan is on site, and is visiting local hospitals in Van. Unfortunately the hospital in Ercis has experienced major damage and therefore hindering efforts to provide care to those injured.
Summary 05:40 UTC : Van Airport generally takes 2500 passengers per day, and is serviced by a single runway. This is the main source for relief in and out of the area at the moment.
Summary 05:35 UTC : 253 aftershocks have occurred so far with M>2.7. They have ranged in depth from 2 to 32km. 25 aftershocks with Magnitude greater than 4 have occurred.
Summary 05:30 UTC : The death toll remains at 217 with 1090 injured, but more statistics are expected in the coming hours. Turkish Press is using the analogy that this earthquake was equivalent to the explosion of 40 nuclear bombs (at 5km depth).
Summary 05:00 UTC : Refer below to 04:00UTC Summary and also to the CEDIM Taskforce summary from 03:00UTC
Update 04:55 UTC : 50 of 200 inmates returned to the Van Prison who escaped, stated that they escaped to check on their families after the wall collapsed to the prison during the earthquake.
Update 04:35 UTC : Currently the support and relief numbers are as follows:
1584 search and rescue personnel. 491 medical personnel. 10 search dogs, 256 machinery and construction/demolition vehicles/equipment.
75 ambulances and 7 rescue choppers (helicopters).
20 generators, 95 portable toilets, 2546 tents, 7648 blankets, 1120 food packages, 10040 food parcels.
3 military cargo planes have transferred the personnel and materials.
Update 04:30 UTC : Following the trend of universities, schools will also have a 1 week break in Van to aid families and to provide checks to the schools subjected to earthquake shaking.
Update 04:25 UTC : In the centre of Ercis, voices of 3 people have been heard from under the rubble, with rescue teams trying desperately to get them out. Oxygen tanks and other devices are on hand to attempt to help the victims. Tents and street lighting have been setup over Ercis, despite the lack of electricity to citizens.
Summary 04:00 UTC :
-Earthquake had a magnitude (Mw=7.2, Ml=6.6-6.7) from USGS and KOERI.
-The epicentre was closer to Ercis than Van, which has reduced expected casualties from around 10000 to in the order of 1000. A value of 700-1000 deaths are expected from the ELER program.
-217 people reported killed (117 in Ercis, 100 in Van) (this does not include people killed in other municipalities as per previous reports)
-1090 people reported injured (740 in Ercis, 350 in Van)
-970 buildings/houses have been destroyed including around 80 multi-storey buildings in Ercis and a lesser number in Van.
-Relief staff continue to pull bodies and trapped victims from the wreckage. Unfortunately the cold weather will mean that survivors will die quicker than in warm conditions.
-Buildings have also been destroyed in Bitlis including major damage to the Sports Center there.
-100s of aftershocks have occurred, with the highest magnitude aftershock coming at 11:45pm Local, with a Ml5.7, Mw6.0.
-Prime Minister Erdogan is on site, and is visiting local hospitals in Van. Unfortunately the hospital in Ercis has experienced major damage and therefore hindering efforts to provide care to those injured.
Latest Update 03:55 UTC : There has been much damage in Bitlis (Sport Centres, buildings etc.) and Hakkari also reported. Again this leads to a different epicentre than reported by USGS. We prefer the epicentre provided by KOERI. As reported by CEDIM, the soft soils around the Lake would also have played a role in creating higher ground motions that ultimately destroy more buildings.
Latest Update 03:50 UTC : Intensities from Malazgirt, where major earthquakes killed around 3500-5000 people in 1903, have been stated to be around VII-VIII on USGS. This is located on the other side of Lake Van, and could mean that damage is more widespread than currently reported.
Latest Update 03:40 UTC : As day breaks, more information will become available as to the extent of the damage as rescue staff, engineers and aid groups have been working through the night. The 970 buildings that have been destroyed number is expected to rise.
Latest Update 03:25 UTC : The CEDIM Forensic Earthquake Analysis Group has released their 2nd update courtesy of Prof. Friedemann Wenzel as of 03:00 UTC. These reports provide a nice summary of what has happened so far and they work closely with earthquake-report.com adding extra earthquake loss analysis as the earthquake progresses. In coming disasters we will provide you with their summaries as they come to hand.
CEDIM Forensic Earthquake Analysis Group - Van Earthquake Summary - 0500 CET - Update 2
Latest Update 02:58 UTC : The death toll has risen to 217 (Ercis = 117 and Van = 100), with 1090 injured (Ercis = 740, Van = 350).
"I Have Felt It" reports as received by Earthquake-Report.com
IRAN / West Azerbayjan/Orumiyeh city: I fell any move on own desk in office like to signal wave move bs ver soft & with delay. I think peak level was down from 4.
Yerevan, Armenia: The doors and windows made cracking noise. The chandelier began to shake.
Tripoli, North Lebanon: It lasted for a few minutes. Doors were rattling and some books and pictures frames fell off the shelf. It lasted for a few minutes. Doors were rattling and some books and pictures frames fell off the shelf.
Yerevan, Armenia: We felt it here in Yerevan. Very scary. Everybody is out. Can't even imagine what is going in the epicenter.
Yerevan, Armenia: Just got dizzy out of no where, all the chandeliers in the house were shaking for a few minutes without stopping.
Tel Aviv, Israel: Slight shaking felt in high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv.
Armenia, Yerevan, South Eastern district: I live on the 7th floor. the furniture was dancing. The most scary thing was not the strenghth of the quake but its duration. It lasted at least 40 seconds. All the people got out of their houses... About half an hour after the earthquake a new quake was felt (about 2 balls)
Yerevan, Armenia: Hello, We also felt the shaking in South-West district of Yerevan and are very scared. Here almost all the buildings are high-rise and panel constructed.
Lebanon: Our house started to shake and it lasted for about a minute.
Armenia, Yerevan, Arabkir district: I was at 4th floor of panel building. First heard wooden frames of windows squeaking. Quake felt to be horizontal, not vertical. It lasted quite long, minimum 15 maximum 40 seconds, hard to estimate, as times scales, when you understand, this may be your last seconds. People got out, to the streets, mobile network was overloaded. Felt an aftershock, one hour later. people again left buildings.
Kinda nervous about every sound now.
Tbilisi, Georgia: Building shook and swayed, lasted a long time. Heard a rattleling sound saw clothes on horizontal pole on neighboring building swaying. We are on the 7th floor of an 1960's Soviet era building
Yerevan, Armenia: Downtown: I felt the aluminium door frame creak when I paused to take notice. I felt dizzy and I immediately recognized it as a quake. Looking at the chandelier I had no doubt. I'm on the first floor. It lasted at least 15 seconds, possibly 30. People from higher floors reported heavy swinging. Many immediately left their apartments for the streets.
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 7.2
UTC Time : Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 10:41:21 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 01:41:21 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 20 km
Geo-location(s) :
19 km N Van (pop 371,713)
26 km SE Ercis (pop 91,915)
Links to important maps
USGS Did You Feel It Map
Google satellite map showing the epicenter and the surrounding area.
Shaking map
Focal mechanism report
Human impact map
GDACS earthquake report
QuakeSOS+ and QuakeSOS free are iPhone applications developed by Armand Vervaeck, the founder of Earthquake Report. The Application simplifies immediate group communication to friends and family members (with your exact GPS location) and is feeding the users with Earthquake Report news. The 0.99 US$ QuakeSOS+ version will support the activities of SOS Earthquakes.
Earthquake-Report.com headlines on twitter
@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America's and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website
I did feel it – Ik heb het gevoeld – Το έκανα αισθάνεται –Yo lo he sentido – 我的确感到了 – 私はそれを感じていました- Ich habe es gefühlt – Bunu hissediyorum yaptı – لم أشعر أنه


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Also comes in black PNG files which can be used as clip art in any program.


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Northern Illinois Scores 4 Points In A Half, But Plays Great Defense
The Northern Illinois Huskies' men's basketball team isn't very good. They are spectacularly bad, actually. On Saturday, Northern Illinois broke its own NCAA Division I record for least points in a first half in the shot clock era by scoring just four points before halftime in a 42-25 loss to Eastern Michigan.
One half = four points. NIU missed 30 consecutive shots in that first half. Just don't tell that to whomever posted the game results to Niuhuskies.com:
Huskies Fall at Eastern Michigan
NIU posts best defensive effort since 2005-06, allowing just 42 points.
Despite the glass-half-full thinking, Northern Illinois set another record by shooting just 3.2 percent from the field in the first half on Saturday. They finished the game making 8 of 61 attempts — a 13.1 percent accuracy rate, which set another NCAA record for futility.
The Huskies had missed 32 consecutive 3-point shots, when Daveon Balls connected with 2:05 left in the game. Balls had a team-high eight points, but, as is often the case in life, Balls wasn't nearly enough to change fate.
Coming into the game, Northern Illinois already had the record for fewest points in a first half, 5, against Dayton on Dec. 1.The Huskies scored 12 points in the final 3:21 to avoid setting the all-time NCAA Division I record for least points in a game, 20, by St. Louis in 1988.


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Fund giant Vanguard said early Monday that John "Jack" J. Granahan — a portfolio manager with the multimanaged $12.4 billion Vanguard Explorer Fund, the $1.3 billion Vanguard Variable Insurance Fund-Small Company Growth Portfolio and the Irish-domiciled $125 million Vanguard U.S. Discoveries Fund — will hand off management responsibilities at year-end.
His investment responsibilities will be taken on by other portfolio managers at the firm, including CEO Jane White and Chief Investment Officer Gary C. Hatton, who co-founded Granahan Investment Management with Granahan, now 77, in 1985. White and Hannon have been co-managers of the Explorer Fund since 2000 and 1998, respectively.
"I'd like to thank Jack on behalf of Vanguard and our shareholders," said Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb, in a statement. "His wisdom, investment acumen, and experience greatly contributed to the success of our shareholders over four decades. As one of Vanguard's longest-tenured managers, he leaves behind a great legacy and team, who we are confident will continue to serve our shareholders well."
The Vanguard Explorer Fund (VEXPX, VEXRX) has risen 37.1% so far this year vs. 27.7% for the S&P 500, while the Vanguard Variable Insurance Fund-Small Company fund has ticked up 37.1%, according to Bloomberg.
Before co-founding the firm that bears his name, Granahan managed the Explorer Fund during the 1970s at Wellington Management Co., where he also led the Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund.
Vanguard tapped Granahan Investment Management to manage the Vanguard Explorer II Fund when it was rolled out in 1985; it also retained the Grahanan fund-management team to run part of the Explorer Fund when it merged with the Explorer II Fund in 1990.
Granahan will remain chairman of the investment management group, which oversaw nearly $4 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, including $3.4 billion for Vanguard.
Other managers of the Explorer Fund are Century Capital Management, Chartwell Investment Partners, Kalmar Investment Advisers, Stephens Investment Management Group, Wellington Management and Vanguard Equity Investment Group. Vanguard says it uses a multimanager approach for 18 funds.
No Capital Gains Distributions for Schwab ETFs
Charles Schwab Investment Management (SCHW) said Monday that none of its 21 ETFs will have capital gains distributions in 2013 — a plus for investors looking to maximize their tax efficiency with these products, it noted.
Schwab ETFs, including the six Schwab Fundamental Index ETFs rolled out in August, had $16.1 billion in assets as of Nov. 29, nearly double their year-ago asset base. The six Fundamental Index ETFs have close to $170 million in assets.
"We're very pleased to be maintaining our track record of tax efficiency across all Schwab ETFs, having never distributed capital gains since we launched our first ETFs in 2009," said John Sturiale, vice president of product management for Charles Schwab, in a press release. "Every penny counts when evaluating a fund's total costs, and tax efficiency is a critical component for investors."
Several Schwab ETFs recently received awards for "best investor experience" over the past year from Morningstar, including Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (SCHB) for the U.S. ETF Large Blend category; Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ET (SCHE) for the U.S. ETF Diversified Emerging Markets category; Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG) for the U.S. ETF Large Growth category; and Schwab International Equity ETF (SCHF) for the U.S. ETF Foreign Large Blend category.
Schwab started offering commission-free online trading of its proprietary ETFs in November 2009.
Check out 9 Tax Breaks Expiring at Year's End on ThinkAdvisor.


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The Gran March is a political state of the Flanaess in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.
History[edit source]
Geography[edit source]
The modern Gran March is generally located in the western-central portion of the Flanaess, and is considered part of the Sheldomar Valley region. It is bordered by Bissel to the north, the Lortmil Mountains to the north and northeast, the Lort River to the east, Sheldomar River and the Rushmoors to the south, and the Realstream River to the west.
As of 591 CY, the most populous towns are Hookhill (pop. 7,500), and Shiboleth (pop. 5,900).
People[edit source]
Population[edit source]
As of 591 CY, the population of Gran March totaled 254,600 persons, the vast majority (almost 80%) being humans of mainly Suel and Oeridian descent. Elves are the next largest group (8%, mainly Sylvan), followed by dwarves (5%), halflings (3%), and gnomes (2%); a mix of half-elves, half-orcs, and other races makes up the remainder of the population.
Religion[edit source]
The most popular deities among Gran March's citizens are Heironeous, Saint Cuthbert, Pholtus, Fharlanghn, Zilchus, the Oeridian agricultural gods, Phyton, and Obad-Hai.
Languages[edit source]
The most widely-spoken languages in Gran March include Common, Keolandish, Elven, and Dwarven.
Government[edit source]
Gran March is a feudal monarchy ruled by His Most Resolute Magnitude, Magnus Vrianian, Commandant of Gran March; the commandant is chosen by a vote of nobles and knights every five years. The current state owes minor fealty to Keoland, and oversees the current government in Bissel. The government and nobles are strongly militarily oriented, with many connections to the Knights of the Watch.
The national capital is Hookhill.
Heraldry[edit source]
Gran March's coat of arms is blazoned thus: Argent; on a chief party per pale gules and azure, in dexter a lion rampant sable, in sinister a sword per bend sinister of the second.
Economy[edit source]
Resources[edit source]
Gran March is noted for producing a variety of foodstuffs, cloth, copper, and high-quality gems.
Currency[edit source]
Gran March's standard coinage is based on Keoland's coinage and consists of the platinum griffon (pp), gold lion (gp), electrum eagle (ep), silver white owl (sp), and copper heron (cp).
Transportation[edit source]
Military[edit source]
The Gran March maintains its military through universal male service. All males are conscripted at the age of fifteen, while female service is still optional. The standing army can be reinforced by a number of specialist militia companies, including archers, cavalry, and pikemen.
Gran March in the Living Greyhawk campaign[edit source]
Gran March is also a playable region in the the RPGA's Living Greyhawk campaign. Players who join the RPGA can create characters (PCs) from Gran March and advance in level as they explore the region through adventures ordered from the RPGA for home play or at gaming conventions.
References[edit source]
- Gygax, Gary. The World of Greyhawk. TSR, 1980.
- Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. TSR, 1983.
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
External links[edit source]
- Gran March at the Great Library of Greyhawk.
- Living Greyhawk Gran March Triad site.
- Gran March Yahoo group.
- Wizards of the Coast's Official Living Greyhawk site.
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