... originated in the Red Sea in Miocene time, propagated towards the northwest in the Suez Gulf and the north-northeast in southeast Turkey, and influenced the structural evolution of the Gaziantep Basin. These two major tectonic events produced many thrusts, thrust-related subsurface and surface anticlines...

..., professional associations, and local governments, which might serve as a model for similar future activities in Turkey and adjacent areas. In order to reach this goal, a thorough microzonation survey program combined with vulnerability and social preparedness studies in anticipation of a damaging seismic event...

... the applied and theoretical aspects of geophysics, with accomplishments both in industry and in academia. He was born in 1915 in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey. In 1937, while attending the University of Istanbul and pursuing a degree in mathematics, he was awarded a scholarship from the Mineral Research...

...Xuechun Li; Xiao Yu; Paula M. Bürgi; David J. Wald; Xie Hu; Susu Xu On February 6, 2023, a major earthquake of 7.8 magnitude and its aftershocks caused widespread destruction in Turkey and Syria, causing more than 55,000 deaths, displacing 3 million people in Turkey and 2.9 million in Syria...

...Elizabeth Vintzileou; Vasiliki Palieraki Unreinforced stone masonry buildings represent a significant part of the building stock in the areas affected by the recent devastating earthquakes of 6 February 2023 in Turkey. Most of them were built before 2000, and, hence, they are not compliant...

... of the EAF that lies on the Kahramanmaras Triple Junction (KMTJ) 32 km WNW of Gaziantep, a city of 2 million people ( Fig.2 ). The earthquake was felt in the entire southern Turkey and northern Syria and as far as Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt and Israel. The earthquake...

... Plate, in South-East Turkey. Volcanic activity started within the Gaziantep Basin during the Early-Late Miocene (21.2-7.0 Ma), and further East, abundant magmatism brought to the formation of the Karacadağ Shield Volcano, starting from Middle Miocene throughout the Holocene (12.1-0.01 Ma). During...

... P Vitale A Iervolino I ( 2023 ) Near-source ground motion in the M7.8 Gaziantep (Turkey) earthquake . Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 52 : 3903 – 3912 . Birpinar ME...

..., Turkey was struck by two major earthquakes. The first, with a moment magnitude ( M ) of 7.7, occurred in Pazarcik at 04:17 local time, with a focal depth of 8.6 km. The earthquake’s epicenter was 37.288°N, 37.043°E, which is 40 km northwest of Gaziantep and 33 km southeast of Kahramanmaras. The second...

... in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Adiyaman, and Hatay provinces ( Lund, 2023 ) (see Figure 1 ). Figure 1. Revised Seismic Hazard Map of Turkey in use since 2018. The East Anatolian Fault is the dark red area slanting diagonally at the right, and the epicenters of the 6 February 2023 earthquakes are located...

... ) Garini E Gazetas G ( 2023 ) The 2 earthquakes of February 6th 2023 in Turkey . Preliminary report, National Technical University of Athens (NTUAA) , Athens . Gaziantep Water and Sewerage Authority (GASKI) ( 2016 ) Construction...

... slabs in the United States (called “asmolen” or “disli doseme” systems in Turkey) are shown in Figure 3 together with a photograph of such a frame during demolition (building located in Nurdagi, Gaziantep). In these frames, beam depths did not exceed the depths of the joists (typically 30–35 cm...

... Türkiye. Fault‐slip modeling studies showed that this rupture initiated on the Sakçagöz segment in Nurdağı‐Gaziantep and nearly simultaneously propagated in opposite directions along the Pazarcık and Amanos segments of the East Anatolian fault zone (EAFZ; Goldberg et al. , 2023 ; Karabulut et al...

.../earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/map ). Nurdağı Viaduct is located on Motorway O52 near the border between Gaziantep and Osmaniye Provinces. According to the USGS Turkey Earthquake Emergency Response website ( arcgis.com ), the viaduct is located near a fault zone, as illustrated in Figure 2...

... damage real-time monitoring ground motion On February 6, 2023 at 04:17 am local time, an earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.9 km (M w 7.8) in southeastern Turkey. The epicenter was located at 37.174°N and 37.032°E, near the city of Nurdağı in the province of Gaziantep. A second earthquake...

... H ( 2022 ) An evaluation of seismic hazard and potential damage in Gaziantep, Turkey using site specific models for sources, velocity structure and building stock . Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 154 : 107129 . Askan...

... half of the pre-earthquake level. Figure 25. Electric consumption data of Hatay province before and after the earthquakes (retrieved from Caliskan, 2023 ). The electricity distribution infrastructure in the region, particularly those in Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman, and Gaziantep...

... (ca. 50 cm) pool in the town Dargeçit, Mardin, Turkey. N 37°35’621” − E041° 43’084”, ca. 932 m a.s.l. Fig. 4 Zonocypris mardinensis n. sp. A) male, internal view of LV and B) RV, C) female, internal view of LV and D) RV, E) pore openings with seta in male from Gaziantep, F) posterior end...