So, E; Aktas, Yasemin; Dönmez, Kokcan; Johnson, Cassidy; (2024) Learning more from Earthquakes: An Attempt to Collect Macroseismic, Casualty, and Early Recovery Data. In: Proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE 2024). World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE): Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

After a major earthquake, there is a period when the earthquake research committee comes together not only in solidarity with the affected communities, and our colleagues in the local area but also to gather as much information from the field as possible. We must learn from the real responses of the natural and built environments to strong ground motions, to improve our imperfect knowledge and calibrate our assumptions. Traditionally, building and infrastructure damage data is collected by local governments, civil protection groups, and professional engineering bodies to assess the extent of damage to aid decisions on reoccupation, repair, or demolition. International reconnaissance missions are mobilised concurrently to bring valuable lessons from the events to their own countries and beyond. Most are in the form of observations, but some detailed damage surveys are also carried out. However, other types of perishable data are important to capture. In this paper, the authors recount their efforts and challenges to design and conduct surveys to capture qualitative data from the affected communities of the February 6th, 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence to help assign macroseismic intensities, understand causes and types of injuries, and early recovery. It is their hope that the systematic collection of data of this kind will become standard in the future.

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