Review article

https://doi.org/10.14256/JCE.1242.2015

Loss Estimation and seismic risk assessment in Eastern Turkey

Ercan Işık
Mustafa Kutanis
İhsan Engin Bal

Abstract

The seismic risk to urban building stock in Turkey is gaining in importance due to very high seismic hazard combined with its vulnerable and densely populated building stock. The research oriented on the eastern part of Turkey, where seismic sources and the level of seismic hazard are different, is presented in the paper. The results of the research show that the seismic safety of civil buildings is highly compromised even in this part of the country, and that expected losses are high and attain the level of "non-tolerable" losses. Economic losses and fatalities are also estimated in the paper, in case of realization of some of the expected scenarios.

Keywords

urban area; earthquake risk; earthquake scenario; loss estimation

Hrčak ID:

185767

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185767

Publication date:

21.8.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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