In partnership with the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network (SSEER), a Learning from Earthquakes Reconnaissance team is currently in Turkey to study recovery and resilience aspects of the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkiye Earthquake Sequence. The team will focus primarily on three areas related to community recovery: employment, schools, and housing. Particular emphasis will be placed on functional recovery and the interactions between individual building recovery and community recovery. This reconnaissance trip will build on EERI reconnaissance studies that were conducted in the months after the earthquake sequence began in 2023. The team will be collecting data using a reconnaissance tool developed by EERI’s Housner Fellows that was piloted in May 2024 following the M7.4 April 3, 2024 Hualien, Taiwan Earthquake.
The multi-disciplinary team members include: Michael Mieler, Burcak Basbug, Suleyman Celik, Louise Comfort, Alpay Demiryurek, Ayse Hortacsu, Carlos Molina-Hutt, Sabine Loos, Halil Sezen, and Egemen Sonmez. Opportunities to hear observations and findings from the team will be announced soon. This follow-up reconnaissance trip is made possible by the generous support of the many donors to the LFE Endowment Fund.
