Marmara depreminden 11 yıl sonra İstanbul daha mı hazırlıklı?
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11 years after Marmara earthquake, is Istanbul any better prepared?
08/18/2010 14:36:56
Despitespending 1.1 billion Turkish Liras toget readyfor amajorearthquake, Istanbul isscarcelybetter prepared for adevastatingtremorthan it was when the Marmara earthquake hit 11 years ago Tuesday, critics have said.
Calling fora national-level "EarthquakeUndersecretariat,' aleadingengineer said efforts tomitigateearthquake damage are not beingcarried outin acomprehensive,manner, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
Neitherlocalnorcentraladministratorsare taking [precautionagainstnaturaldisaster] into consideration,' Dündar Çağlan, the head of the Chamber of Geology Engineers, a part of the Turkish Union of Engineers' and Architects' Chambers, or TMMOB, said at apressconferencein Ankara.
"Wekeeptalking, butso farthere is nomaster plan,' Orhan Turan, the chairman of the Association of Turkish Building-Material Producers, or İMSAD, said last week. "Most of theresidencesbuilt after 1999 are strong enough to resist earthquakes, but the rest of them are weak, so we need a master plan and a definedbudgettorestructurethe old buildings.'
According to arecentstudyconductedby three universities, 42,500 of the 146,987 buildings in the six Istanbuldistrictssurveyedare at riskin the event ofan earthquake, with the Güngören and Bahçelievler districts facingpotentialdamage to 77 percent of their structures.
Fortypercentof all buildingsthroughoutIstanbul would be damaged and 2 percent would completelycollapsein the event of an earthquake with amagnitudehigher than 7, said Professor Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. He believes the city will be hit by a quake ofat leastthat strength, the Doğan news agency reported Monday.
In the event of such a tremor, Erdik said, some 20,000 buildingsacrossthe city would collapse, and 200,000 would be damaged, killing anestimated200,000 to 300,000 people.
The government should start its preparations with public buildings and state schools, but it does not have the funds or themeanstoundertaketheentireeffort alone, Kasapoğlu said, adding that building owners should have toprovidecompulsoryearthquake-resistance reports instead of carrying earthquakeinsurance.
Marmara depreminden 11 yıl sonra İstanbul daha mı hazırlıklı? - 11 years after Marmara earthquake, is Istanbul any better prepared?
Despitespending 1.1 billion Turkish Liras toget readyfor amajorearthquake, Istanbul isscarcelybetter prepared for adevastatingtremorthan it was when the Marmara earthquake hit 11 years ago Tuesday, critics have said.
Calling fora national-level "EarthquakeUndersecretariat,' aleadingengineer said efforts tomitigateearthquake damage are not beingcarried outin acomprehensive,manner, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
Neitherlocalnorcentraladministratorsare taking [precautionagainstnaturaldisaster] into consideration,' Dündar Çağlan, the head of the Chamber of Geology Engineers, a part of the Turkish Union of Engineers' and Architects' Chambers, or TMMOB, said at apressconferencein Ankara.
"Wekeeptalking, butso farthere is nomaster plan,' Orhan Turan, the chairman of the Association of Turkish Building-Material Producers, or İMSAD, said last week. "Most of theresidencesbuilt after 1999 are strong enough to resist earthquakes, but the rest of them are weak, so we need a master plan and a definedbudgettorestructurethe old buildings.'
According to arecentstudyconductedby three universities, 42,500 of the 146,987 buildings in the six Istanbuldistrictssurveyedare at riskin the event ofan earthquake, with the Güngören and Bahçelievler districts facingpotentialdamage to 77 percent of their structures.
Fortypercentof all buildingsthroughoutIstanbul would be damaged and 2 percent would completelycollapsein the event of an earthquake with amagnitudehigher than 7, said Professor Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. He believes the city will be hit by a quake ofat leastthat strength, the Doğan news agency reported Monday.
In the event of such a tremor, Erdik said, some 20,000 buildingsacrossthe city would collapse, and 200,000 would be damaged, killing anestimated200,000 to 300,000 people.
The government should start its preparations with public buildings and state schools, but it does not have the funds or themeanstoundertaketheentireeffort alone, Kasapoğlu said, adding that building owners should have toprovidecompulsoryearthquake-resistance reports instead of carrying earthquakeinsurance.
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