1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake

Earthquake in Turkey 1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake Turkey 1998-06-27 13:55:53 1147835 iscgem1147835 1998 6 27 yes 16:55:53 TRT 6.3 w y 20 km on 36.94 35.26 region:TR_type:event inline,title Strike-slip Turkey $1 billion 9 5.4 w y July 4 at 02:15 UTC At least 145 dead 1,500–1,600 injured 8,800 displaced The 1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake occurred at 16:55 local time on 27 June with a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum intensity of IX (Destructive) on the European macroseismic scale. The total economic loss was estimated at US$1 billion. The event occurred in Cilicia region in southern Turkey and killed at least 145 people and left 1,500 people wounded and many thousands homeless in Adana, and Ceyhan, the most populous town of the Adana Province, as well as many villages located between both cities along the Ceyhan River.http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb2/pb21/Task_Force/Einsaetze/Adana/adana.html Adana Earthquake of June 27, 1998 Frank Wuttke and Mathias Raschke 1 June 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20070812030327/http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb2/pb21/Task_Force/Einsaetze/Adana/adana.html 12 August 2007 dead The most casualties and damage occurred due to inadequately engineered buildings in the town of Ceyhan. International search and rescue efforts Multiple countries such as: Germany, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland, Israel, Italy, and France, offered help to Turkey in the aftermath of the quake.1998-06-29 Ceyhan - Hopes of more Turkish quake survivors fade - Türkiye ReliefWeb https://reliefweb.int/report/turkey/ceyhan-hopes-more-turkish-quake-survivors-fade 2025-04-26 reliefweb.int en1999-01-01 Earthquakes https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308dac.003/full/html Disaster Prevention and Management 8 4 10.1108/dpm.1999.07308dac.003 0965-3562 subscription The United Nations also conducted an assessment mission and placed its disaster management team on standby, ready to provide humanitarian assistance if requested.1998-07-06 Turkey - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 3 - Türkiye ReliefWeb https://reliefweb.int/report/turkey/turkey-earthquake-ocha-situation-report-no-3 2025-04-26 reliefweb.int en Government stance Despite these international offers, the Turkish government explicitly stated that it did not require international assistance for search and rescue or immediate relief operations. The government expressed gratitude for the offers but maintained that national and local resources were sufficient to manage the crisis. See also List of earthquakes in 1998 List of earthquakes in Turkey References Stochastic Finite-fault Modeling of Ground Motions From the June 27, 1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake Esref Yalcinkaya Earth Planets Space 57 107–115 2005 2 10.1186/BF03352554 2005EP&S...57..107Y 54891624 free ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2014 International Seismological Centre Version 1.05 PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ September 4, 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 The Adana-Ceyhan Earthquake of June 27, 1998 http://www.sgeb.ch/erkundungsmissionen/Adana.pdf Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Thomas Wenk Corinne Lacave Kaspar Peter 1998 37, 38 December 10, 2014 September 24, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100927/http://www.sgeb.ch/erkundungsmissionen/Adana.pdf dead M5.4 – central Turkey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0008qxd#general_summary United States Geological Survey Further reading 10.1029/2000GL011412 A lower-crustal event in the northeastern Mediterranean: The 1998 Adana earthquake (Mw= 6.2) and its aftershocks Geophysical Research Letters 27 16 2361–2364 2000 Aktar Mustafa Ergin Mehmet Özalaybey Serdar Tapirdamaz Cengiz Yörük Ahmet Biçmen Faruk 2000GeoRL..27.2361A free Mehmet Çelebi Revelations from a single strong-motion record retrieved during the 27 June 1998 Adana (Turkey) earthquake https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70022130 2000 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 20 5–8 283–288 10.1016/S0267-7261(00)00061-0 2000SDEE...20..283C subscription External links Structural damage in 27 June 1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake M6.3 – central Turkey – United States Geological Survey 1147835 1998 Adana Category:1998 in Turkey Category:1998 earthquakes 1998 1998 Category:June 1998 in Turkey Category:1998 disasters in Turkey