Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Emergency Management, cilt.23, sa.3, ss.363-382, 2025 (Scopus)
On February 6, 2023, a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 earthquake occurred on the East Anatolian Fault Zone at Pazarcık-Kahramanmaraş-Türkiye. Following this earthquake, approximately 9 hours later, another earthquake with a magnitude of Mw = 7.6, whose epicenter was in the Elbistan district of the same city, occurred on the Çardak Fault, which branches from the East Anatolian Fault. These two earthquakes, which occurred at a distance of approximately 90 km from each other, were followed by numerous aftershocks. The earthquakes were effective in an area of approximately 400 km long and 100-200 km wide in the southwest and northeast directions. In this paper, the failures and damages observed in buildings, building foundations, retaining structures, highways, railways, slopes, and tunnels were evaluated for four cities located in these two fault rupture regions. The investigated sites were chosen by considering the characteristics of fault lines, geology, and structural systems. In this way, the observations were associated with the site effects based on the soil properties and distance to the fault of the region.