Gölcük earthquake in 1999

Gölcük ; earthquake İzmit earthquake
date	August 17, 1999
Time	00:01:39 UTC
intensity	IX on the MM scale
Magnitude	7.6 M W
depth	17 km
epicenter	40 ° 44 '53 " N , 29 ° 51' 50" E Coordinates: 40 ° 44 '53 " N , 29 ° 51' 50" E
country	Turkey
Tsunami	Yes
dead	18,373
Injured	48.901
	; Earthquake damage in İzmit (August 26, 1999)

The earthquake of Gölcük occurred on 17 August 1999 at 03:01 local time in Turkey . The cities hardest hit were İzmit , Yalova , Gölcük and Adapazarı . The earthquake , the epicenter of which was around 80 km east-southeast of the old town of Istanbul , reached a magnitude of 7.6 on the moment-magnitude scale . It also caused a tsunami in the Sea of Marmara , the wave was up to 2.5 meters high. Civil society supported one another extensively in the aftermath of the earthquake.

geology

The earthquake corresponded to the abrupt movement of two neighboring clods of earth on a 130 km long section of the North Anatolian fault between the Eurasian and Anatolian plates . This section stretched from the Gulf of Izmit on the Marmara Sea to far into the mainland. The amount of offset at the corresponding fault was more than five meters.

Casualty numbers

The Anatolian Plate with the North Anatolian Fault

A first number of victims listed 17,480 deaths in the following provinces :

Kocaeli : 9,477
Sakarya : 3,891
Yalova : 2,504
Istanbul : 981
Bolu : 270
Bursa : 268
Eskişehir : 86
Zonguldak : 3

A total of 18,373 people died and 48,901 were injured in the quake, according to a parliamentary report published in 2010.

consequences

In response to the earthquake, a 7.5 percent earthquake tax was introduced in Turkey to finance reconstruction and to prepare the state for future earthquakes.

Web links

Commons : Earthquake of Gölcük - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Magnitude 7.6 - western Turkey, 1999 Aug 17 00:01:39 UTC. Report on the USGS earthquake

Footnotes

↑ Tobias Mayer: The earthquake of Gölcük. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. August 17, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
↑ Grand National Assembly of Turkey (ed.): Deprem Riskinin Araştırılarak Deprem Yönetiminde Alınması Gereken Önlemlerin Belirlenmesi Amacıyla Kurulan Meclis Araştırması Komisyonu Raporu. July 2010, p. 49, report available online at tbmm.gov.tr (Turkish).
↑ Bülent Mumay: What the nation should endure everything. In: faz.net . February 7, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020.

[1] Tobias Mayer: The earthquake of Gölcük. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. August 17, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .

[2] Grand National Assembly of Turkey (ed.): Deprem Riskinin Araştırılarak Deprem Yönetiminde Alınması Gereken Önlemlerin Belirlenmesi Amacıyla Kurulan Meclis Araştırması Komisyonu Raporu. July 2010, p. 49, report available online at tbmm.gov.tr (Turkish).

[3] Bülent Mumay: What the nation should endure everything. In: faz.net . February 7, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020.