RELIEF: Large earthquake faulting and implications for the seismic hazard assessment in Europe: The Izmit-Duzce earthquake sequence of Aug.-Nov. 1999 (Turkey, Mw 7.4, 7.1)

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0603

Key words (English)

Earth Sciences; Economic Aspects; Environmental Protection; Meteorology; Social Aspects

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: EVG1-CT-2002-00069

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.4a.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Recently, two destructive earthquakes (Mw 7.4, Mw 7.3) with 170-km of surface faulting devastated a large region of Western Turkey. Different international research groups have initiated preliminary studies but field data collection and analysis are needed. The RELIEF proposal consists of mainly field investigations in the epicentral area that aims to cover different disciplines from Paleoseismology, Physics of the Source and Engineering Seismology. These large earthquakes represent a unique natural laboratory and the only opportunity to test our present understanding of the earthquake process and refine our current seismic-hazard models. These models are nowadays necessary for the development and application of seismic hazard approaches. Database collection will be disseminated by means of maps and reports (websites and GIS).

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0603