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JSCE Disaster Report: "Reconnaissance survey on geotechnical damage caused by February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaraş Earthquake, Türkiye" (FactSheet: FS2024-E-0002)

Reconnaissance survey on geotechnical damage caused by February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaraş Earthquake, Türkiye

 

Author:

Seda SENDIR TORISU1, Tetsuo TOBITA2, Takashi KIYOTA3, Ozer CINICIOGLU4, Gokce TONUK5, Nikolay MILEV6, Juan BRIONES7, and Kiyoharu HIROTA7

  1.  Member of JSCE, Civil Engineer, Nuclear Facilities Division, Obayashi Corporation
  2.  Member of JSCE, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Systems Engineering, Kansai University
  3.  Member of JSCE, Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
  4.  Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Bogazici University
  5.  Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, MEF University
  6. Chief Assistant Professor, Faculty of Transportation Eng., Geotechnics, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
  7. Engineer, Geofizika EIG Ltd.

Key Facts

  • Hazard Type: Earthquake
  • Date of the disaster: February 6th, 2023
  • Location of the survey: Islahiye, Tepehan, Iskenderun, Antakya, Golbasi, Kahramanmaras
  • Date of the field survey: March 29th – April 2nd 2023
  • Survey tools: Drone, Digital camera, GPS, Laser rangefinder, Microtremor

Key findings:

landslides, liquefaction, inundation, settlement, embankment failure

Key Words: Kahramanmaras Earthquake, geotechnical damage, liquefaction, lateral spread, landslide, inundation, settlement

Paper: PDF 2,667KB

・JSCE Journal of Disaster FactSheets: https://committees.jsce.or.jp/disaster/