Presentations from the Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye Earthquake Sequence one-year anniversary program track at the 2024 EERI Annual Meeting held in Seattle, Washington from April 9-12, 2024.
Plenary Session: Reconnaissance, Response, and Recovery: Lessons Learned from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence
April 9, 2024
Description: This plenary session opens the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Anniversary Program Track at 2024AM, organized in partnership with the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. The M7.8 and M7.7 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey on February 6, 2023 affected a wide region of southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing nearly 60,000 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of thousands of buildings in more than 10 major cities. In this plenary, speakers from Turkey and the United States will present a multidisciplinary overview of the response to these earthquakes, the ongoing recovery process, and the lessons learned for earthquake risk and resilience in the region and beyond. Speakers will address topics including the coordination of the international earthquake reconnaissance response, the structural engineering impacts and what they mean for building codes and retrofit standards, and the social and economic impacts of the earthquakes as they relate to business resilience and gender, and the temporary rehousing and long-term rebuilding process.
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Concurrent Session: Structural and Lifelines Engineering Findings from the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence
April 10, 2024
Description: This session concludes the special 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Anniversary Program Track organized in partnership with NEHRP. The session will focus on structural and lifelines infrastructure engineering findings from studies of the February 6, 2023 7.8 and M7.5 earthquakes. Presentations will discuss building codes and seismic retrofit standards, structural engineering impacts to reinforced concrete buildings, and post-earthquake lifelines reconnaissance. The session will conclude with a lightning round of poster presentations on topics including structural and geotechnical engineering, data collection and coordination, and response and recovery, representing a selection of the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes-focused posters in the Wednesday evening poster session.
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Concurrent Session: Geological and Geotechnical Engineering Findings from the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence
April 10, 2025
Description: This session continues the special 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Anniversary Program Track organized in partnership with NEHRP. The session will focus on earth science and geotechnical engineering findings from studies of the February 6, 2023 7.8 and M7.5 earthquakes in Turkey. Presentations will discuss ground motions, surface fault rupture mapping, geotechnical impacts, and seismic settlement and its impacts on buildings.
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