The aim of the project
The aim of this project is to examine fatal consequences of Gölcük and Van earthquakes which are arising from engineering errors.
1999 Gölcük Earthquake
This earthquake, whose eppicenter is Gölcük county in Kocaeli, occured at 03:02 with Turkey time and lasted 45 seconds. According to Richter scale, the magnitude of this earthquake is 7,5 Mw. Furthermore , this earthquake occured on Northern Anatolia fault line ,which is the longest fault line in our country and one of the most active fault lines of the world. The earthquake, which took place in 10 miles below the earth, was felt especially in Marmara Region, a large area from Ankara to Istanbul. According to the leaflet ‘’Earthquakes 1999’’, published by Prime Ministry Crisis Management Center in August in 2000[1], number of deaths from surrounding cities are indicated in the following table. Surrounding cities | Number of deaths | Kocaeli | 9477 | Sakarya | 3891 | Yalova | 2504 | İstanbul | 981 | Bolu | 270 | Bursa | 268 | Eskişehir | 86 | Zonguldak | 3 |
In Assembly Research Report, published in 2000, figures of casualties was updated as 18.373 and in the same report, the following statistics showed up.
• Number of injured: 48 , 901
• Cripple: 505
• Demolished and heavily damaged building: 96, 796 house and 15 ,939 workplace
• Moderately damaged house: 107 ,315
• Moderately damaged workplace: 16 , 316
• Little damaged house: 113 ,382
• Little damaged workplace: 14 , 657
• Number of prefabriced request: 43 ,264
• Number of prefabriced distributed: 40 ,786
