An interdisciplinary special session on the 2023 Turkey/Syria Earthquake Sequence was held at the 2023 EERI Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 in San Francisco, CA. The session included presentations from members of reconnaissance teams recently returned from the field and other experts that provided overview of impacts from the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence. 

Oral Presentations

• "A synopsis of rapid characterization of hazard and impacts from the M7.8 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence using USGS ShakeMap and PAGER, ELER, and OpenQuake capabilities," Kishor Jaiswal, USGS and David Wald, USGS
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/YI3qvEoz8x0
• "Mapping the communication and coordination networks in response to the Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes, Türkiye, 6 February 2023," Louise Comfort, CITRIS, University of California, Berkeley
• "Geotechnical Problems Caused by the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes," Ozgun Numanoglu, Schnabel Engineering
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/-3lFl5zSAf0
• "February 6 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes’ Surface Ruptures and Their Impact on Infrastructure," Ozgur Kozaci, Mott MacDonald
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/tJJR3MjIx7Y
• "EERI Lifelines Reconnaissance Team Briefing," Riccardo Cappa, SGH; Ezra Jampole, Exponent; and Brad Wham, CU Boulder;
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/-J9vBH3b8v0
• "EERI Buildings Reconnaissance Team Briefing," Rupa Garai, SOM and Michael Mieler, ARUP
• "EERI Hospitals Reconnaissance Team Briefing," Gordon Wray, Degenkolb
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/98Wncy7sLlE

Lightning Presentations

• "Building Performance of Turkish School Buildings," Adam Hugo-Holman, Degenkolb
• "Field Observations on Structural Performance of Public Buildings in Turkey," Zeynep Tuna Deger, Istanbul Technical University
• "Seismic Damage Observation of Residential RC Buildings after Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes," Furkan Narlitepe, Altinbas University
• "Assessing the Factors Contributing to the Collapse of Structures after the Maras Earthquakes in Turkey: Field Observations of 500 Damaged Buildings," Ali Sari, Istanbul Technical University/University of Texas at San Antonio
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/brEaLjnpdlQ
• "ETH/SAEE 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquake reconnaissance mission," Bozidar Stojadinovic, ETH Zurich
  View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/aFM7_Sz2ByM
• "Remote Sensing and On-Ground Assessment to Assist Response and Recovery Process in 2023 Kahramanmaras Turkey Earthquake," Amir Gilani, Miyamoto International

Poster Presentations

• "Building Performance of Turkish School Buildings," Adam Hugo-Holman, Degenkolb
• "6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye Earthquakes: Characteristics of Strong Ground Motion and Damage Distribution," Nesrin Yenihayat, Lettis
• "Numerical Investigation of the Response of a Mid-rise Cold-Formed Steel Building under the Turkiye/Syria Earthquake Sequence Scenario," Jiachen (Charlie) Zhang, University of California San Diego