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| Titel |
Van earthquakes (23 October 2011 and 9 November 2011) and performance of masonry and adobe structures |
| VerfasserIn |
D. Güney |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 12, no. 11 ; Nr. 12, no. 11 (2012-11-14), S.3337-3342 |
| Datensatznummer |
250011193
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-12-3337-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Earthquakes, which are unavoidable natural phenomena in Turkey, have often
produced economic and social disaster. The latest destructive
earthquakes happened in Van city. Van, Turkey, earthquakes with M = 7.2
occurred on 23 October 2011 at 13:41 (local time), whose epicenter was
about 16 km north of Van (Tabanlı village) and M = 5.6 on 9 November 2011
epicentered near the town of Edremit south of Van in eastern Turkey and
caused the loss of life and heavy damages. Both earthquakes killed 644 people
and 2608 people were injured. Approximately 4000 buildings
collapsed or were seriously damaged. The majority of the damaged structures were
seismically insufficient, unreinforced masonry and adobe buildings in rural
areas. In this paper, site surveys of the damaged masonry and adobe
buildings are presented and the reasons for the caused damages are discussed in
detail. |
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