A survey of damage observed in Izmir due to 2020 Samos-Izmir earthquake

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 hit the city of Izmir (Turkey) on 30 October 2020, resulting in 117 deaths (in Turkey) and considerable economic losses. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami. Following the earthquake, field surveys are being conducted in a Covid-secure way to study and document the...

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Published in:Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 2022-03, Vol.111 (1), p.1047-1064
Main Authors: Demirci, Hasan Emre, Karaman, Mustafa, Bhattacharya, Subhamoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bridges
Building damage
Civil Engineering
Collapse
Columns (structural)
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquake damage
Earthquakes
Economic impact
Economics
Environmental Management
Geology
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Ground motion
Hydrogeology
Natural Hazards
Polls & surveys
Railway tunnels
Rescue operations
Residential areas
Residential buildings
Residential location
Roads
Seismic activity
Seismology
Short Communication
Surveying
Surveys
Tunnels
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Summary:An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 hit the city of Izmir (Turkey) on 30 October 2020, resulting in 117 deaths (in Turkey) and considerable economic losses. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami. Following the earthquake, field surveys are being conducted in a Covid-secure way to study and document the damages caused. The earthquake caused significant damages to residential buildings mainly located in the district of Bayrakli and Bornova. However, no damages were observed in railway and roadway bridges or tunnels and that helped the rescue operations. The damages were mainly structural which included the so-called pancake collapse (where the entire building collapsed) and soft storey type collapse (weak storey characterised with weak columns collapsed), and in some cases, only the ground floor completely collapsed. Due to the proximity of the epicentre and the geology of the area, it seemed that the ground motions were amplified. This technical note provides a summary of the seismological and recorded ground characteristics of the earthquake together with the lessons learnt.
ISSN:0921-030X
1573-0840
DOI:10.1007/s11069-021-05085-x