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The Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior, will hold the 2023 Türkiye Earthquake Disaster Investigation Conference on June 29, 2023

  • PostDate:2023-06-09 16:23

The Türkiye-Syria earthquake took place in the early morning of February 6 this year, with a scale of 7.8 and an earthquake origin depth of  17.9KM, resulting in more than 50,000 deaths and 120,000 injuries. The disaster area exceeded 350,000 square kilometers, with approximately 14 million people (16% of the total Turkish population) are impacted. The Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior collected relevant information related to earthquake damage immediately after the earthquake. Professor George C. Yao from National Cheng Kung University also invited professors and industry technicians from Taiwan to form a team and conducted the disaster survey in Türkiye. In view of the valuable experience of the Türkiye earthquake, the conference is planned to be held to share the disaster investigation results with the academic and engineering industry in Taiwan, hoping to bring practical benefits to the engineering professionals.