Newsletter – April 2024

Volume 8, Issue 2

From the Editor’s Desk

by Tuna Onur.

The devastating earthquake sequence in Turkey last year in early February was a stark reminder of how earthquakes can severely impact communities. Two earthquakes of magnitude larger than 7.5 happened within nine hours of each other, followed by numerous aftershocks.

CAEES sent a reconnaissance team of structural and geotechnical earthquake engineers and earth scientists to Turkey, three months after the earthquakes. Our team captured observations over a large geographical area and summarized their findings in a report that will be available to CAEES membership soon. This issue highlights the earthquake sequence and some preliminary seismological and structural engineering observations ahead of the publication of the CAEES
reconnaissance team’s report.

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