By Mustafa ERDIK, Yaver KAMER, Mine B. DEMIRCIOGLU, and Karin SESETYAN.
Kandilli Observatory and Earthquakes Research Institute.
An earthquake of Mw7.2 on 23 October 2011 occurred in the Van region of Eastern Turkey. The mainshock and long series aftershocks caused significant damage and claimed 644 lives. The particular features and the lessons learned are covered. structions for typing papers submitted to the “One Year After 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake – International Symposium on Engineering Lessons Learned from the Giant Earthquake-” are presented.
Read the Report: Report on 2012 Van (Turkey) Earthquakes (1.54 MB PDF)
