2003 Bingöl earthquake

2003 Bingöl earthquake 2003-05-01 00:27:04 usp000bwbc 6832154 Turkey 2003 5 1 yes 03:27 local time 6.4 Mw 15 km on 38.95 40.4 region:TR_type:event inline,title Strike-slip Turkey IX 0.55 g Yes ≥6,700 177 killed, 521 injured An earthquake hit eastern Turkey with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) on 1 May 2003 at 03:27 local time 00:27 UTC. The epicenter of this strike-slip earthquake was in Bingöl Province, 15 km north of the city of Bingöl. At least 177 people were killed and 3,305 buildings collapsed or suffered heavy damage in the affected region. Eighty-four of the fatalities occurred when a dormitory block collapsed in a boarding school in Celtiksuyu. Quake headteacher speaks of ordeal BBC News May 4, 2003 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2999429.stm Tectonic setting Most of Turkey lies on the Anatolian Plate, which is being forced westwards by the collision between the Arabian plate and the Eurasian plate. This westward movement is accommodated by two large strike-slip fault zones, the west–east trending right lateral North Anatolian Fault in the north of the country and the SW-NE trending left lateral East Anatolian Fault towards the south-east. Movement on these two faults have been responsible for many large and damaging earthquakes historically. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us60007ewc/executive M 6.7 – 13 km N of Doganyol, Turkey Earthquake The earthquake occurred on May 1, 2003, with a depth of 15 km (9.3 mi).http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC-GEM Catalogue – Introduction It was a strike-slip event, lasting about 17 seconds with a magnitude of 6.4. It occurred at 3:27 am local time.Turkey: Earthquake in Bingol Province https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/C9A258F6DFE5421E49256D20002518A9-ifrc-tur-7may.pdf International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies May 7, 2003 The strike-slip fault responsible was not the East Anatolian Fault; it ruptured a right-lateral strike-slip fault perpendicular to the East Anatolian Fault.Milkereit C. Grosser H. Wang R. Wetzel H.-U. Woith H. Karakisa S. Zünbül S. Zschau J. Implications of the 2003 Bingöl Earthquake for the Interaction between the North and East Anatolian Faults Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2004 94 6 2400–2406 10.1785/0120030194 2004BuSSA..94.2400M Numerous seismically induced ground deformations, displacements and ruptures were observed in the epicentral area. According to these observations, a few surface ruptures were located between the villages of Hanoçayırı and Sudüğünü, with a vertical drop of 40-65 cm ft observed at a nearby field.Kandilli Observatory May 1, 2003 Bingöl (Turkey) Earthquake https://www.emsc-csem.org/Files/news/Earthquakes_reports/TURKEY_bingol.pdf European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre 15 December 2024 Boğaziçi University By 8 May, there were over 6,700 aftershocks, including 1,962 on the day of the mainshock. Damage thumb|Picture of a damaged building due to the earthquake The earthquake damaged hundreds of buildings made of reinforced concrete and masonry. Many school buildings constructed within the last six years were heavily damaged.Kaplan Hasan Yilmaz Salih Binici Hanifi Yazar Erhan Çetinkaya Nihat May 1, 2003 Turkey—Bingöl earthquake: damage in reinforced concrete structures Engineering Failure Analysis June 2004 11 3 279–291 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2003.08.005 A total of 177 people were killed; 84 of the fatalities occurred when a dormitory block collapsed in a boarding school. Quake headteacher speaks of ordeal BBC News May 4, 2003 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2999429.stm A total 8,417 houses being damaged, of which 305 collapsed, 3,000 heavily damaged, 2,566 moderately damaged, and 2,546 slightly damaged. In the city of Bingöl, 6,570 buildings were damaged, 570 of them seriously, including 90% of schools, four of which collapsed; the school where the dormitory block collapsed was a 5-story building. Three hospitals in the city were also damaged. The majority of destroyed or seriously damaged buildings were constructed using unreinforced concrete, which are prone to collapsing in strong tremors. See also List of earthquakes in 2003 List of earthquakes in Turkey References ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 International Seismological Centre Version 2.0 PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200313112456/ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/web/data/pager/catalogs/ dead 2020-03-13 September 4, 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 M6.4 – eastern Turkey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000bwbc#general_summary United States Geological Survey Further reading The Bingöl earthquake of May 1, 2003 http://www.jsce.or.jp/report/19/report/report200307.pdf Ö. Aydan R. Ulusay M. Miyajima 2003 Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ulusay Reşat Aydan Ömer Characteristics and geo-engineering aspects of the 2003 Bingöl (Turkey) earthquake https://www.academia.edu/61823220 Journal of Geodynamics 40 2–3 2005 0264-3707 10.1016/j.jog.2005.07.018 334–346 External links 6832154 eq-2003-0197-tur Category:2003 disasters in Turkey 2003 Bingöl Category:2003 earthquakes Category:2003 in Turkey Category:History of Bingöl Province Category:May 2003 in Turkey