Earthquake in Turkey Kills 51

WEATHER WARS. JUST SAYIN'

WTF is with all these earthquakes? it started in China a couple of years back and from then on, it has been constant...scary...

the end is near.. 2012

Just in case the next earthquake comes to a town near YOU:

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many
rescue teams from many countries...I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle of life". The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the
probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake... It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on The back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or
window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How?
If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be
crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads – horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.
The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.

8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is much
better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway... The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to
them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!


In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul , University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a
home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method.

After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered
the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.

There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the "triangle of life." This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

Someone please explain to me how the Oscars is a top story along with this?? The Oscars are such a waste of time and money.

flee california while there's still time!

2012 really is going to be the apocalypse

That is a s**t-load of aftershocks!

I hope everyone in Turkey is doing all right, as well as all the other disaster areas.

Also, I have to ask: why is there so much news recently about earthquakes occuring? Are media companies trying to broadcast as much earthquake-related news as much as possible? Is the Venezuelan President right, at least partially (which is a bit of a stretch to ask)?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3859699,00.html
Will politics in Turkey cost lives?
Even on the eve of fresh peace talks?

My deepest regards go to every victim that has had to go through the painful aftermath of powerful earthquakes, from every mother that has lost her child to every child that has lost its parents and every person that had to help remove the casualties of such events, but be aware that every year there are an average of 24000 earthquakes worldwide and with a great fluctuation in deaths in all of the years in this estimate. Let’s not revolve around the media frenzy of doomsday coming near, mother nature has had its tall on humanity since the dawn of time but let’s promote awareness in humanity to create a standard of living to have a healthy symbiotic relationship with our home earth. Be the change promoting better life in underdeveloped countries and donate time in learning first response locally and if you volunteer worldwide do that in that area as well. It is not necessary to be really scared to start helping but indispensable to help before fear takes over. I believe in our skills scientifically as humanitarian, so let’s take advantage of that and lets create a world that is not afraid of what has been happening since forever but let’s make humanity enjoy forever through that knowledge.
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everyone just wondering who's next? There but for the grace of god go we.

anybody think that 12/12/2012 is a joke ?

mothernature 3, random countries-0

and another one bites the dust...or i guess chokes on the dust would fit better

I don't know how much more disaster news I can stomach. It's just too sad and I'm running out of money to donate.