EEFIT Mission report: Kocaeli, Turkey

This report provides information concerning:

• The earthquake effected region
  • Seismic hazard of Turkey and the Marmara Sea region
  • Socio-economic profile of the Marmara Sea region
  • Socio-economic effects of the Kocaeli earthquake and comparison with past earthquakes
     
• Geophysical aspects and seismology
  • Basic seismological data
  • Tectonic setting of Turkey
  • Historic earthquakes and surface slip on the Northern Anatolian fault
  • Teleseismic observation of the 17 August 1999 earthquake
  • Surface slip during the 17 August 1999 earthquake
  • Secondary effects
     
• Strong-motion and macro-seismic intensity
  • Strong ground motion stations
  • Strong motion records
  • Measured ground motions
  • Response spectra
  • Measured ground motion
  • Response spectra
  • Factors influencing the observed strong ground motion
  • Macrosiesmic intensity distribution
     
• Geological and geotechnical aspects
  • Local ground conditions
  • Fault rupture
  • Site response
  • Liquefaction
  • Earthquake-induced slope instability
  • Earthquake effects on retaining structures
  • Earthquake effects on earth embankments
  • Gas venting
     
• Performance of buildings
  • Building codes requirements
  • Performance of residential buildings
  • Typical collapse modes in concrete buildings
  • Geographical and statistical analysis of damage
  • Damage survey in Izmit
     
• Performance of industrial and commercial sites
  • Damage survey of industrial estate
  • Petrochemical plants
  • Car plants
  • Performance of commercial buildings
     
• Infrastructure and marine facilities
  • Performance of terrestrial infrastructure
  • Performance of waterfront structures