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The Japanese Geotechnical Society has published the first results of its activities after the occurrence of the 11th March, 2011 Tohoku earthquake. On JGS website the Lessons and Recommendations "Geo-hazards During Earthquakes and Mitigation Measures” are now available for download.

On Sunday 23rd October 2011 (10:41:21 GMT) a devastating earthquake hit the province of Van, in the Eastern Turkey, at about 80km from the border with the Iran. The Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) in Istanbul estimated that the quake had a magnitude Mw = 7.2; the epicentre was located at 20km (Latitude: 38.7578N; Longitude: 43.3602E) in the North-East part of the city of Van. According to the preliminary report by KOERI, it was a shallow earthquake with a depth of about 5km. USGS estimated a different depth for the same event; the superficial earthquake had a depth of 20km.