Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Profile: Settlement Information and Analysis of Earthquake Parameters

Abstract

Thousands of people die and billions of dollars of financial loss occur every year in Turkey and the world due to natural disasters. Although many reports and regulations have been prepared to eliminate the negative situations caused by natural disasters, changing climate conditions, technological advances and social habits require these measures to be developed, renewed, and made sustainable over time. In this context, creating a data pool to prevent the loss of life and property caused by disasters and performing the necessary studies becomes even more important. In addition to disaster-related information, this data pool should include physical and geographic information such as the distances of people's communal living areas to the administrative centers, the population in these living areas, and transportation facilities. In this study, a disaster and emergency profile for Turkey has been tried to be presented. For this, the distances of all settlements to the districts and provincial centers they are connected to, the transportation times and speeds of these centers, the altitudes of the settlements, earthquake zone numbers, earthquake hazard map parameters, populations, and areas were compiled or calculated. The evaluation was made separately according to the districts and provinces, taking into account the determined limits. Based on the profile reached at the end of the study, suggestions were developed for planning and projects for disasters and emergencies.