Damages to unreinforced masonry buildings by the Van earthquakes of 23 October and 9 November 2011

Tama Y. S., Solak A., Cetinkaya N., Sen G., Yilmaz S., Kaplan H.

NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.329-337, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5194/nhess-13-329-2013
  • Dergi Adı: NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.329-337
  • İnönü Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Van, a city in Eastern Anatolian Turkey, was hit by two earthquakes with magnitudes of M-w = 7.2 and M-w = 5.6 in October and November 2011. Both earthquakes caused extensive damage to many buildings. Unreinforced masonry buildings, especially in rural areas, suffered from those earthquakes extensively as in many other cases observed in Turkey during other previous earthquakes. This paper presents a site survey of damaged masonry buildings. Reasons for the wide spread damages are discussed in the paper.